I saw the other day about the new video of Hardware Unboxed where they benchmarked the Intel GPUs with newer drivers on Windows. I’m also interested in buying one but I’d like to know how good they are on Linux. Since the GPUs will be using Vulkan renderer on Linux, I was hoping they would be better overall, or rather have a decent performance. What is your general experience with them? Also, do they work well with Wayland? Thanks for any and all inputs.

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
    6·
    10 months ago

    I’ve had an A770 Limited Edition since its release in late 2022. Overall, I’m happy with it. The drivers were a mess at launch but now everything works as expected. Performance is decent in the games I play, though I have a 144Hz 4K monitor and it’s not really capable of that resolution and refresh rate except on the lightest esports games so I use FSR on most games. My most played game is Overwatch and it hits 144Hz with dynamic resolution scaling on and medium settings. I want to buy a higher end GPU eventually to really push this monitor but waiting to see what happens with the next generation of Intel and AMD cards (NVIDIA is not even in the running unless NVK suddenly gets performance parity with the proprietary drivers).

  • Unyieldingly@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 months ago

    Wait for Battlemage, the DG2 cards will not have full support with the newer drivers also BattleMage is coming out soon.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    61·
    10 months ago

    I’ve heard the drivers are a mess for gaming. Better off with Radeon for Linux ATM. I made the same consideration several months ago and the poor compatibility and performance numbers pushed me to a 6600 XT.

  • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    They have open source drivers so they are not bad but it’s Intel arc so you’re probably better of with Radeon if you game. I do use an a380 in my jellyfin computer and apart from having to backport the kernel (Debian user problems) it works great. I did play Scrap Mechanic on it on Wayland and I didn’t notice any issues but I heard they are really inconsistent in different games.

  • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    its been ok, some things still have issues, I get graphical glitches and lower then expected performance in genshin, not sure if this is a dxvk or an anv thing, but it’s not too much lower. It is a bit lower then my rx580 4g in the second slot however

      • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        the a380 is known to be more or less the same performance as a rx580 on windows right now, lower performance for full float ops, and higher perf for half float ops, but you do have a newer feature set, so It really shouldn’t come as a surprise that it would preform in the same ballpark as the rx580,

        as I said it is lower then expected performance, meaning performance on windows is higher, but this should really not come as a surprise IMO. Linux has less development effort being done to it, and there haven’t really been all that many bug reports, of which I’m guilty for as I havent been reporting bugs i’ve come across.