No open sources drivers, no buy
At an absolute minimum! When Arc first came out I considered getting one just for the AV1 encoder, but there’s very little else going for the whole line. An open-source driver at least makes the techier among us more likely to want to play with one.
There was some mesa bug that was over 2 years old that was just merged in recently that fixed a huge Arc bottleneck. It’s embarrassing how bad the implementations are for both Windows and Linux.
How do you not know that Intel has they same type of open source graphics driver like AMD? Their kernel module, OpenGL and Vulkan libraries are all free software, only requiring small firmware blobs. That’s why Intel ‘just werks’ on Linux without having to download a 500mb kernel module or have a separate .iso available to download specific to the hardware.
That was a little rude. I have never read anything about these cards, thats exactly how. This article was the first thing. Drivers are mentioned once in the article, in a single sentence, not about the licensing.
that was a little rude
Bro you came in pretty hot too.
That’s what they said about Arc and then they were garbage
Were they though? After they fixed the drivers and used proper transition layers for directX they’re really decent entry-level cards.
I disagree.
The drivers are much improved, yes, but in the meantime we’ve had the Arc cards performing like shit and being unstable for a year, and that’s after they already released far later than the competition. Even now the drivers are still much worse than AMD or Nvidia and run into issues.
Their power usage is a joke, their die size is more similar to a card 2 tiers above the performance of what the cards achieve.
The price wasn’t good either. Yeah they beat Nvidia by a bit, but they cost more than AMD for a far inferior product.
Arc was a failure. That’s why Intel shut down their AXG division. You don’t do that to a division that’s performing well.
I understand people want a third player in the GPU space, I do too, but the truth is, Arc was bad. I don’t think we should call them good just because they have a blue badge instead of a green or red one.
Based comment. I want them to succeed. I guess. But people seem to be making disingenuous claims about it.
Responding to the pro arc people: “yeah the last one was kinda shit. And it’s Intel. But, it’s cool because it’s not AMD or Nvidia”
I’m so confused
