Intel Arc B580 Linux Graphics Driver Performance One Month After Launch

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67385

    Intel Arc B580 Linux Graphics Driver Performance One Month After Launch

    Phoronix: Intel Arc B580 Linux Graphics Driver Performance One Month After Launch

    Yesterday I looked at how the Intel OpenCL GPU compute performance evolved for the Arc Graphics B580 in the one month since that first Battlemage graphics card premiered. There were nice Intel GPU compute optimizations merged over the past month to improve the experience. Here are some Linux graphics/gaming benchmarks for the Intel Arc B580 comparing the prior launch day Linux driver performance to where the Mesa performance is at now...

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  • JEBjames
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2018
    • 376

    #2
    Michael

    Typo

    "to now the current performance" should be "to the current performance" (remove "now")

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    • pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2020
      • 1601

      #3
      I was stoked at the huge Furmark vulkan improvements. Then let down that it didn't apply to the small set of games tested.

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      • pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx
        Senior Member
        • Jul 2020
        • 1601

        #4
        Also, you still can't buy one of these damn things other than ridiculously priced Chinese brand versions. I want the Intel one for $250 to play with. By the time they stay in stock long enough to order one, the RX 9070 XT will be out and I'll have lost interest in this.

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        • ddriver
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2014
          • 724

          #5
          Now that's the intel we've grown to know and love - driver improvements yield impressive synthetic gains, and also somehow - in the end, it is a negative impact on real world performance., Catering to synthetic benchmarks can sum up the entirety of intel's downfall.

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          • slalomsk8er
            Senior Member
            • Apr 2010
            • 375

            #6
            Originally posted by ddriver View Post
            Now that's the intel we've grown to know and love - driver improvements yield impressive synthetic gains, and also somehow - in the end, it is a negative impact on real world performance., Catering to synthetic benchmarks can sum up the entirety of intel's downfall.
            Well, to be generous, it's a lot easier to test patches against synthetic benchmarks - at least it was before the phoronics test suite

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            • Terr-E
              Junior Member
              • Nov 2015
              • 49

              #7
              The Windows side-by-side showed a lot of potential gains to be had with optimization, but the numbers in this new round of benchmarks show little to no improvement.
              Hopefully Intel can still spend some time on closing the gap with Windows or else they're likely going to lose the Linux vote, FWIW.

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              • jaxa
                Senior Member
                • Jul 2020
                • 353

                #8
                Originally posted by pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx View Post
                Also, you still can't buy one of these damn things other than ridiculously priced Chinese brand versions. I want the Intel one for $250 to play with. By the time they stay in stock long enough to order one, the RX 9070 XT will be out and I'll have lost interest in this.
                It was a fake launch of a card they lose money on.

                We'll have to see what AMD RDNA4 card gets closest to the $250 price point while having more than 8 GB. Probably a 9060 XT 16GB at $3xx.

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                • PapagaioPB
                  Junior Member
                  • Jul 2024
                  • 19

                  #9
                  Today, I don't have a GPU, as I'm waiting for AMD's RDNA4 presentation. However, I'm very inclined towards a B580; it will also depend on the price when it arrives here in my country (Brazil).

                  The performance gap between Windows and Linux is still significant, but I believe Intel will eventually achieve equal or even better performance on Linux. Of course, their focus is on Windows to capture a share of the market, and now, with the controversy around weak performance on lower-end processors, they will likely focus all their efforts on reversing that. It would be interesting to conduct a CPU test on Linux to see if this issue applies there as well.

                  Another test I'd like to see is gaming performance with Proton using DXVK vs. OpenGL (PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% on Steam), as the OpenGL driver is excellent for these Intel GPUs. I ran a basic test on the game Afterimage, and with OpenGL, it was about 30% better. However, my CPU is somewhat outdated (Core i5 11400), and its iGPU is pretty weak, but it would be an interesting comparison nonetheless.

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                  • bnolsen
                    Senior Member
                    • Mar 2008
                    • 276

                    #10
                    Originally posted by jaxa View Post

                    It was a fake launch of a card they lose money on.

                    We'll have to see what AMD RDNA4 card gets closest to the $250 price point while having more than 8 GB. Probably a 9060 XT 16GB at $3xx.
                    I think it's more like the whole market is starving for any GPU that isn't vastly overpriced. There is a substantial amount of pent up demand.

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