I’m currently using an AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB and I don’t planned to change it any time soon. However I have a couple of friends that are entering PC gaming or upgrading their existing rigs and asks a couple of things to me their nerdy friendly PC gamer friends.
Of course they are pretty much all tired of the current Windows bloat, spy and flakyness so we’re looking if their gaming habits and libraries would be a good match for Linux and Proton.
Considering that AMD are the best supported GPU for Linux Gaming and that NVidia is moving away from accessible pricing I was wondering if including Intel Arc would be a good or a bad idea for my proposals. I know it won’t offer the PC MASTER RACE experience but honestly who cares. My friend just wants a cheap but reliable gaming PC to play casually at 1440p or maybe even staying at 1080p. If intel won’t suit I will probably recommend second hand AMD Radeon to fit their budget.
Anyone here have tried some Intel Arc gaming on Linux? What was your experience? Any issues I should be aware? Recommendation? What distro have the best out-of-the-box experience?
Thanks
Most of the issues are gone. It’s not a top tier card but it’s not pretending to be. It’s a card for the rest of us. I got the B580 because of the media encoders and tons of VRAM for the dollar, giving me a lot to play with. I’m using it in fedora.
Be sure you upgrade the firmware with the battlemage cards. Fwupd added support for doing this but you need a fairly recent version to install the firmware updates. Bazzite currently can’t do it out of the box but you can live boot fedora and do it just fine. It fixes PCODE, mailbox and fan control issues and supposedly improves performance a little.
Thanks for all these informations it might be helpful!
Exactly, for their budget I am not looking at a RTX 5080 killer but as I said, a reliable GPU for 1080p or maybe 1440p gaming on Linux.
I’m doing 4k game streaming off it and it’s fine though I’m not playing the latest AAA games.