Utilizing Intel’s Arc discrete GPUs in Linux has labored nicely sufficient for some time; Intel’s graphics drivers in Linux have traditionally been fairly good. Nonetheless, they would not be recognized correctly—they merely confirmed up as “Intel(R) Graphics.” The newest Mesa replace, model 22.3-devel, corrects that, and within the course of, has doubtless revealed the extent of Intel’s Arc Graphics product stack.
A lot of the SKUs within the checklist are acquainted, after all. You will be well-acquainted with the Arc A380 by now, and we have already examined (briefly) the Arc A370M laptop computer GPU. We have additionally just lately reported on the Arc Professional graphics playing cards, in addition to the just-launched Intel Information Middle GPU Flex Collection—the artists previously referred to as Arctic Sound. Notably absent from the checklist is the long-rumored A780 (cue Ryan Shrout shouting “I advised you!” within the distance).
Nonetheless there are nonetheless a good few unexplained “Intel(R) Graphics” entries within the checklist, together with one based mostly on ACM-G11 (the smaller Alchemist die, also called DG2-128) and a bunch extra based mostly on an as-yet unknown “G12” chip. Primarily based on the naming scheme, we might anticipate that to be an excellent smaller Alchemist GPU. It might have been rumored previously, however we have not seen a lot about it currently.
Hopefully, this replace implies that Intel is within the ultimate phases of getting its first-generation Arc GPUs to market. Talking plainly, the playing cards are nicely late, and Alchemist’s window of relevance is shrinking as we inch nearer to next-gen merchandise from NVIDIA and AMD. Intel’s going to have to cost the playing cards nicely beneath what it will have been in a position to even three months in the past, and given the corporate’s newest financials, that is not a fantastic consequence for its first fashionable foray into discrete graphics.
