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Intel’s long-awaited Arc GPUs begin shipping today, starting in laptops

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Intel is so lucky that real graphics cards have been eaten by blockheads and the supply chain monster since otherwise nobody would take a chance on them after a decade plus of brand destruction done by integrated graphics that do little but cause corrupted graphics and crashes on gaming and desktop replacement laptops.

(Note: Intel graphics driver stability on Linux is pretty good.)

This is exactly why I am excited about the Arc GPUs. I have had rock solid stability with Intel iGPUs on Linux (yes, even compared to AMD which my desktop has). I don't need something super powerful but driving a 4k display or two without the laptop getting so toasty would be nice.

My complaint is with the discrete + integrated combo on Windows.

The worst offender here are the Firefox and Chrome web browsers. It seems like these get assigned the dGPU or iGPU randomly to different windows. If you get the wrong one you have problems with rendering, such as the title bar goes bad.

For years I would submit a ticket for this, it would seem to be fixed, then the bug would come back shortly thereafter.

I had one desktop replacement laptop that blessedly would let me disable the iGPU and then it would be reliable. My current Alienware doesn't.

Oh, discrete + integrated seems bad everywhere then (it's known bad on Linux) and should be avoided.

you haven't seen Intel vulkan drivers on Linux, I guess.

How is this supposed to disrupt Nvidia? Those marketing stats from those slides are really poor. Only 90 fps (what an arbitrary target?) on Fortnite, GTA 5, Rocket League, and Valorant. All of which are older and very well optimised games so I'm not sure 90fps at 1080p is showing anything impressive...

Those benchmarks appear to be for Arc "3" GPUs, which are the low-end ones.

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