How performant are the Intel Arc GPUs in linux? - eviltoast

I saw the other day about the new video of Hardware Unboxed where they benchmarked the Intel GPUs with newer drivers on Windows. I’m also interested in buying one but I’d like to know how good they are on Linux. Since the GPUs will be using Vulkan renderer on Linux, I was hoping they would be better overall, or rather have a decent performance. What is your general experience with them? Also, do they work well with Wayland? Thanks for any and all inputs.

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    9 months ago

    Phoronix has recent benchmarks.

    For gaming the price / performance is on par with similar mid-priced AMD GPUs, but there are still some smaller incompatibility issues and the idle power draw is significantly higher.

    For compute they are faster than AMD, but 3rd party software support is similarly bad, i.e. no CUDA.