*ADDENDUM/WARNING* If my omission in telling you where or how to get the cutting edge version of MESA-git isn't enough, I recommend that unless you have a designated partition or system for testing the new cutting edge MESA -git version, *you SHOULD NOT seek out MESA-git for use on production system, or in other words, a system you rely on.* The system I test on is exactly that: for testing. I wipe and switch distros and make new instances at will. Wait for the release of MESA 24.1 on May 15th and see if the update is available for the distro you use on your system.
Battlemage the generation after Alchemist Arc gpus should release by Q4 this year, which means Alchemist gpus will drop in price even more. The generation after Battlemage is called Celestial. NVIDIA and Amd are basically handing over the low and mid tier gpu market to Intel. With the Xess upscaling technology that Intel is building already surpassing Amd's FSR 3.0, Arc Gpus should be a household name in due time.
I am excited. There's the short term excitement, and there's long term excitement for me. I'm really excited about the SR-IOV features that are coming with the 6.8/first Xe Driver release I've been hearing about mostly in passing up until this point. Long term, I'm excited because it's clear that Intel doesn't seem to be mailing things in as far as Linux support goes. Things are maybe later than I'd like, but progress is progress.
Hell, yeah, I can't wait the new videos! We might finally get the Intel ARC cards to be (almost) the same on Linux as on Windows. Well, apparently except real time ray tracing, as that one, from what I know, works pretty good (for the overall cards level) on Windows. But if everything else is on the same level, and going forward, both driver stacks are in roughly the same update path and schedule, then I'm a happy camper. I'm kind of looking forward next year to get a Framework 16 laptop with Intel Arrow Lake and Intel Battlemage GPU. And, yes, I know, reality check - we might not have Battlemage descrete GPUs at all, or it might not be next year, or Framework might not have an Intel GPU module, or maybe even no Intel motherboard for Framework 16 either (as of 2025). But there's a chance, and I'm carefully optimistic for now. Maybe I'll be able to finally stop using my aging 7 and a half years old laptop and get a new one. But none that are now on the market are what I want.
So the drivers have progressed substantially, but they aren’t performing at Window’s level. Some games perform REALLY well (like shadow of the tomb raider) and some start and are still slideshows. What matters is that the driver developers are still working on improving things on the Linux side and hopefully sometime soon gaming performance will be on par with Windows performance.
@@ALAK5555 I think, assuming the default fan curve is fine (and we need long term data to determine that), it's more important to be able to change the voltage (namely, under volt) these cards. The A770 has something like 21.7 billion transistors, and things can get toasty, especially with the dual fan layout of the Limited Edition. I'm either gaming or not on Linux, and I think it would be great to dial in lower power utilization via undervolting when I don't need to push the card (which is probably 99% of the time, even when gaming). There's lots of horror stories of memory modules failing on the likes of Nvidia cards, and Ampere was a really hot architecture paired with GDDR6X which also got really hot, and it also irked me to no end that there is no way to undervolt Nvidia cards in Linux. I think fan curves are fine, and the real difference maker is being able to control how much electricity is flowing through the card's components. I'm not an electrical engineer so I guess you can take my opinion with a grain of salt.
I almost always run games at 1440p for these videos because: 1. The A770 is a 1440p card 2. I want to see how card handles a primarily gpu heavy workload, as opposed to lower resolutions where the CPU acts as a performance and workload bottleneck to a given gpu.
Would you think by the time of Ubuntu 24.04 release, would the A770 be viable? Looking at the Framerates compared to Windows, it really looks like there's still a lot of work.
24.04 is slated to release on April 25th 2024. If by viable, you mean "play games at the same frame rate as Arc does on Windows in about 5 weeks," I'd say no.
