I have had the A750 for a year+ now and play most games on Linux. mainly indy games and path of exile. PoE plays better under Linux than Windows, by far. I have not had driver issues at all (or that were noticeable to me) but it isn’t like I have tested it extensively.
If you are into PoE then you may know about how unplayable blight, esp blight ravaged maps can be. Slide show or worse for me on Windows with both the A750 and with the older NVIDIA card I had before. Under Linux it plays quite well except with things hit hyper density of mobs situations and even then its still playable.
fair point when it comes to gaming. My only contact point with Linux + GPU drivers is at work, where everyone would laugh if you’d suggest buying AMD cards
What is the intel GPU driver scenario on Linux? What about game stability?
I have had the A750 for a year+ now and play most games on Linux. mainly indy games and path of exile. PoE plays better under Linux than Windows, by far. I have not had driver issues at all (or that were noticeable to me) but it isn’t like I have tested it extensively.
If you are into PoE then you may know about how unplayable blight, esp blight ravaged maps can be. Slide show or worse for me on Windows with both the A750 and with the older NVIDIA card I had before. Under Linux it plays quite well except with things hit hyper density of mobs situations and even then its still playable.
The real issue is spotty compatibility with older games or even things that nobody would normally think about being problematic, like emulators.
So I’m guessing that it’s worse than Nvidia but has the scope to become better because it’s open-source.
Big advantage being that it’s plug-and-play via the kernel and Mesa packages, just like AMD.
They are far worse than AMD, which is a very low bar already.
I thought AMD’s drivers were much better than nvidia for Linux?
Yeah, sorry, I missed the context and meant outside of Linux and for gaming.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-windows-linux
opengl perf is ok on linux, but vulkan is somehow much better on their windows drivers (for now)
Intel has like half the valuation of AMD at this point. So expect it to be as good as AMD to half as good.
It’s hard to beat Nvidia since they can hire more than 10x the people.
AMD has much better Linux drivers than Nvidia though, so that line of reasoning doesn’t really work.
fair point when it comes to gaming. My only contact point with Linux + GPU drivers is at work, where everyone would laugh if you’d suggest buying AMD cards
For now. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/nvidia-transitioning-open-source-gpu-152323688.html