Intel Arc Graphics vs. AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce For 1080p Linux Graphics In Late 2023

While this article is primarily focused on the Linux gaming performance, I did fire up SPECViewPerf 2020 too while at it for seeing how the workstation OpenGL performance was looking.

In cases like SNX-04 where the consumer NVIDIA GeForce performance is crippled on their proprietary driver stack, the Intel Arc Graphics were performing better but still well short of the AMD Radeon results with their RadeonSI Gallium3D driver that has seen many SPECViewPerf optimizations in recent years.

In other SPECViewPerf 2020 viewsets the Intel Arc Graphics were struggling. It also looks like RDNA3 hardware may be missing out on some RadeonSI optimizations given the much lower performance here than the Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards.

But there certainly is some potential out of the Arc Graphics DG2/Alchemist hardware for workstation graphics. Hopefully as the new Xe kernel driver rolls out in 2024 and continued Iris/ANV Mesa driver enhancements are made, there will be some more exciting performance optimizations to be exposed.

The Arc Graphics performance on Linux was decent with the ParaView workstation visualization software.