Intel Arc Graphics Show Good Potential For Linux Workstation OpenGL Performance

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Phoronix: Intel Arc Graphics Show Good Potential For Linux Workstation OpenGL Performance

Recently I provided a fresh look at the Intel Arc Graphics Linux gaming performance with the newest open-source drivers. While it was a letdown with some of the newer Steam Play games still not working due to current limitations of the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver and some Vulkan performance issues in other titles, one area that stood out was the very good Linux OpenGL performance. That made me curious to look at the workstation OpenGL performance for Intel Arc Graphics, which is the focus of today's testing.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-graphics-ws

[zboszor]

Why isn't the RX 6400 shown in power consumption charts when it is shown in ratings charts?

[Michael]

Why isn't the RX 6400 shown in power consumption charts when it is shown in ratings charts?

Doesn't have onboard power sensor support.

[coder]

Thanks for the tests. It's good to see that it's a viable option, for most of them. Let's hope the outliers, especially, continue to see improvement.

[syrjala]

Michael FYI your graphs these days are totally illegible with dark reader.

[Michael]

Michael FYI your graphs these days are totally illegible with dark reader.

They are only validated against Phoronix Premium dark reader mode, no clue how other dark modes behave/work.

[khnazile]

My a380 *still* does not work. No display output, even with no OS. OpenGL acceleration works in Linux if you use it as secondary graphics card.

[M@GOid]

Boy, Nvidia really want you to by those Quadro cards, don't they? Got behind even to Intel now... So much for the "Nvidia has the best drivers" their fanboys love to brag about.

[Anux]

My a380 *still* does not work. No display output, even with no OS.

You should send it back then, because at phoronix there are working samples.

[stormcrow]

Boy, Nvidia really want you to by those Quadro cards, don't they? Got behind even to Intel now... So much for the "Nvidia has the best drivers" their fanboys love to brag about.

You and those 7 that agree with you apparently don't know that there's a hardware difference between Nvidia Quadro cards and their gaming cards. It's not strictly driver differences. Quadros are designed from the ground up to accelerate OpenGL workloads which is what the professional visualization market segment utilizes. Gaming cards are optimized for DirectX performance with OpenGL as a throw in 'oh, you might want some of this too' on occasion. In more recent years there was some convergence between OpenGL and DirectX features as traditional visualization companies lost their strangle hold on the OpenGL spec, but there's still not a 1:1 feature compatibility especially when it comes to DirectX 12 which is what all the modern gaming cards are optimized for.

Edit to add: That's not to say the two market targets can't be combined into a single product package like what Intel is apparently doing with ARC, only that's what Nvidia does, and AMD has done (is still?) with FireGL cards.