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Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨along_the_road@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/17/24323888/intel-arc-b580-sold-out-availability

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  • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What is the intel GPU driver scenario on Linux? What about game stability?

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    • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The real issue is spotty compatibility with older games or even things that nobody would normally think about being problematic, like emulators.

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      • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So I’m guessing that it’s worse than Nvidia but has the scope to become better because it’s open-source.

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    • coffeetest@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have had the A750 for a year+ now and play most games on Linux. mainly indy games and path of exile. PoE plays better under Linux than Windows, by far. I have not had driver issues at all (or that were noticeable to me) but it isn’t like I have tested it extensively.

      If you are into PoE then you may know about how unplayable blight, esp blight ravaged maps can be. Slide show or worse for me on Windows with both the A750 and with the older NVIDIA card I had before. Under Linux it plays quite well except with things hit hyper density of mobs situations and even then its still playable.

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    • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have an Intel arc A750 and so far it’s been great. There are still some bugs with direct x12 games because the driver isn’t complete. Specifically unreal engines nanite system games will just not launch. But there a already a fix for it so I’m just waiting for it to get merged

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    • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Intel has like half the valuation of AMD at this point. So expect it to be as good as AMD to half as good.

      It’s hard to beat Nvidia since they can hire more than 10x the people.

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      • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        AMD has much better Linux drivers than Nvidia though, so that line of reasoning doesn’t really work.

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    • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv0o6505JAc

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    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      www.phoronix.com/…/intel-arc-b580-windows-linux

      opengl perf is ok on linux, but vulkan is somehow much better on their windows drivers (for now)

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    • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah another thing I should mention is shadows in Skyrim look horrible. So far it’s the only game with this issue tho

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      • Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They have a harder time with older games in general. DX11 (I think) is still new for Intel

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  • Sina@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now give me half that performance for $150, without enforcing that whatever it’s called bar thing! (neither of these two things will happen)

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    • tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All modern motherboards support ReBAR. Not sure why you’d be against it.

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      • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Probably because they want to use this card with an old board, which means an older CPU, which makes no sense with a card this powerful, since it’ll drastically bottleneck GPU performance. It’s a common mistake people are making though.

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s unreasonable mate. Rebar is good and compute has always been cheaper if you stack more of it, to a point.

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