A modified driver has been published allowing Intel Arc GPU owners to run the full XMX-accelerated version of XeSS in SteamOS unlocking extra performance.
Up to RTX 5060 / RX 9060 performance with more VRAM. Sometimes it even performs better. But Intel has a huge driver CPU oberhead so in games heavy on CPU it performs a lot worse. Which also means that upscaling wont help much in those cases. (on Windows… IDK how the Linux driver behaves with Arc)
In Windows, they’re about equivalent to low to midrange Nvidia and AMD cards. Ever since the AI boom Intel hasn’t been funding their consumer GPU development at all, and supposedly canceled the C-series cards and the highest-end B-series. I believe they still have folks working on drivers.
How do these cards compare to Nvidia or AMD cards?
Up to RTX 5060 / RX 9060 performance with more VRAM. Sometimes it even performs better. But Intel has a huge driver CPU oberhead so in games heavy on CPU it performs a lot worse. Which also means that upscaling wont help much in those cases. (on Windows… IDK how the Linux driver behaves with Arc)
In Windows, they’re about equivalent to low to midrange Nvidia and AMD cards. Ever since the AI boom Intel hasn’t been funding their consumer GPU development at all, and supposedly canceled the C-series cards and the highest-end B-series. I believe they still have folks working on drivers.