Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance
Long story short, running the latest upstream open-source driver code between the Linux kernel and Mesa is good enough for launch day. There will surely be more performance optimizations to come across the coming weeks, so be on the look-out for follow-up Phoronix articles noting further enhancements.
The support on Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel is rather good for launch day and far better than it was when the Intel Arc A-Series debuted. Linux 6.13 and Mesa 25.0-devel via the Oibaf PPA were used for this launch-day Linux gaming testing on both the Intel Arc Graphics and AMD Radeon RX 7000 series hardware. The NVIDIA R565 packaged driver was used for the GeForce RTX 40 series testing for this fresh benchmarking off an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake system with Ubuntu 24.10 and the mentioned software version upgrades. For getting an idea for the Arc B580 Linux performance at launch the following graphics cards were freshly (re)tested:
- Intel Arc A580
- Intel Arc A750
- Intel Arc A770
- Intel Arc B580
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
- AMD Radeon RX 7600
- AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT
- AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
- AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
A variety of native and Windows Steam Play (Proton) emulated games were tested. The GPU power consumption was also monitored over the duration of each benchmark ran among these OpenGL and Vulkan rendered game titles on Linux.
Thanks to Intel for supplying an Arc B580 graphics card review sample for launch-day Linux testing at Phoronix.