Intel Arc has got lost of improvements but I'm not giving a click to ETA Prime
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
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Tell me why? Any drama I haven't heard?
Exactly. Tell us fuckin why. I'm so sick of people making comments like this and just leaving people hanging because they expect everyone to know every thing they do.
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I don't have time to watch this video right now, but as someone who's uses an Intel Arc A770 for two years, there are certain aspects which are no end of trouble.
Namely anything that has to do with raytracing, and especially Unreal Engine 5 for some reason.
Raytracing has never been worth the performance penalty imo.
It creates beautiful videos in satisfactory and other slow games. If AI never happened i bet cards would have been cheap enough for most games to afford ray tracing by default but alas
Regardless of cost, not even the mightiest gpu can play a 1440p game with path tracing for example at high refresh rates, without dlss. So no, the cost isn't the only issue.
This is a minor cosmetic feature used to entice fools to depart with their money.
In a very limited list of games on a very few expensive GPU it is worth. 90% of time on 90% of the hardware it is not worth indeed.
Finally? I installed SteamOS on my Arc PC when Steam Machine launched and it was fine.
Various Steam and Linux gaming software were only officially running on AMD.
I know ChimeraOS, bazzite HTPC and SteamOS/HoloISO were not well supported or not supported at all on any other GPU a year ago.
So? Valve didn't remove Mesa drivers from SteamOS. Intel is supported by Mesa.
I am out of the loop. Why should I consider an Intel Arc over Nvidia or AMD? Is it just a price thing?
It's neat to have more than one option. With Nvidia of course not being one.
Nvidia may catch up one day but I dont think it will be until NVK gets good
Nvidia GPUs will never fully catch up until Nvidia themselves switch their entire driver model to be open source and upstream developed within Mesa.
Watching that video I can see the card being very useful once the Linux drivers can fully exploit the hardware.
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Well, yes.
If you can get an Arc GPU at a better price than the equivalent AMD, that's a huge deal.
For a long time, Intel was the only GPU manufacturer that worked just as well on Linux as it did on Windows. The problem was that they only made integrated graphics, so it was useless for gaming.
Arc was their first attempt at a discrete PCIe GPU. The Linux community had the expectation that Linux would be a first-class citizen. IIRC it missed the bar, but it wasn't horrible.
By the time this all happened, AMD was hitting performance parity between Windows and Linux. You'll notice in the steam hardware survey that AMD is the undisputable king of Linux.
If Arc is now working well on SteamOS, it's probably worth re-evaluating.
For a long time, easily a decade now, Radeon drivers work better under Linux than Windows: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2013/09/26/dolphin-emulator-and-opengl-drivers-hall-fameshame/
Intel also has way better hardware support than AMD, for some reason.
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That's pretty neat. Might be a good time to pick one up before the world figures out it's working as well as it is.
This is perfect time for those that want (and have the money) to build a small compact steam machine. Intel has a low profile 16 GB card.
I'm debating one for my Minisforum MS-01 desktop. I currently have an eGPU with a used AMD 6700 XT (I think) that I got from a coworker a while ago. Mainly because eGPU over USB4 is weird (eGPU is weird in general on Linux).
So I actually ordered a MS-02 desktop bare bones I'm slotting in with a 4060 LP I have laying around. You're right, eGPU is weird on Linux all over. It works, just always an odd quirk with it.
Yeah, I've been doing eGPU for probably 5 years in one form or another. It works, they're just quirky. Mostly around hot plug/unplug. I learned this time using it with USB4 that the UEFI and my LUKS prompt don't show up.
Interesting? Why do you think that is?
By the research I did, the UMFI doesn't load the driver stack to output the picture there. And I didn't see any UEFI settings for it.
No accelerated XeSS upscaling yet.
Cool, great. ...but why use ai to create the thumbnail? ;-;
Looks more like a classic thumbnail template with a background, titles and some GPU pngs. Only the left GPU looks AI-ish to me and it might just be 3D render.
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I had that thought as well. We're about to be in the period of doing absolutely random and sometimes worse thumbnails/promotional art just to show it is human generated.
Not a value judgment, just an observation
Yeah ;-;
Damn, so near perfection! I bet in less than one year it's ready for prime time.
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