D3Cold-Off Power Savings Being Prepped For Intel's Linux Driver For Arc Graphics

[phoronix]

Phoronix: D3Cold-Off Power Savings Being Prepped For Intel's Linux Driver For Arc Graphics

Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers remain very busy preparing the open-source driver stack for Arc Graphics DG2/Alchemist hardware. While much of the base enablement work is complete and now with Linux 5.19 the compute support is even exposed to user-space, one of the areas seeing more work in recent times has been around power management...

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[pinguinpc]

Michael do you have any chance to test arc gpus because normally intel drivers on linux seems better than windows?

[Michael]

Michael do you have any chance to test arc gpus because normally intel drivers on linux seems better than windows?

There will be benchmarks upon the official launch/availability of desktop cards. I have no laptop access with Arc AFAIK.

[moriel5]

There will be benchmarks upon the official launch/availability of desktop cards. I have no laptop access with Arc AFAIK.

Since it appears that the launch is in the end also for the DIY market (but initially prebuilt-only), If you are able to order from JD.com (Chinese language only there, unfortunately), once the Gunnir Arc A380 Photon returns to there (the listing was removed, probably due to Gunnir accidentally releasing before they got permission to do so from Intel), it might be an interesting comparison (also all of Gunnir's DG1 cards are there, including (interestingly) a discrete Xe MAX card, however they all seem to be out of stock at the moment).