Now that the preliminary Intel Arc B580 graphics card gaming overview on Linux is out, for productivity-minded customers you might be extra curious in regards to the GPU compute potential… Here are some preliminary OpenCL and Level Zero outcomes for the Intel Arc B580 graphics card in comparison with the Intel Arc A-Series and the AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce competitors beneath Linux.
As famous within the Intel Arc B580 Linux gaming overview this morning, the Battlemage / Xe2 graphics help is all upstream and open-source. For graphics workloads you will have to be on Linux 6.12+ and Mesa 24.3+ whereas as with most new {hardware} on open-source drivers: the newer, the higher for having all the newest options and efficiency optimizations.
The kernel necessities are the identical for these occupied with Intel Arc B-Series graphics for GPU compute workloads: Linux 6.12 steady at the least or Linux 6.13 Git for the very newest help… My launch day benchmarks have been all on Linux 6.13 Git. For the OpenCL and Level Zero user-mode driver help, my assessments have been accomplished utilizing the newest Intel Compute Runtime on GitHub: v24.45.31740.9 that was launched final week and paired with the Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) v2.1.12. The Intel Compute Runtime launch would not explicitly point out Battlemage help, but it surely was working with the B580 however with some bugs persisting. I can be round with extra Battlemage GPU compute benchmarks because the stack matures.
For this text I used to be benchmarking the Intel Arc Graphics {hardware} utilizing this very newest Compute Runtime, the AMD Radeon RX 7000 collection playing cards on the brand new ROCm 6.3 launch, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 graphics playing cards on the R565 driver. The graphics playing cards for this GPU compute comparability included:
– Intel Arc A580
– Intel Arc A750
– Intel Arc A770
– Intel Arc B580
– NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
– NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
– NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
– NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
– AMD Radeon RX 7600
– AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT
– AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
– AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
– AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
– AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
– AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
From there a wide range of cross-vendor GPU compute benchmarks have been carried out on Ubuntu 24.10 Linux from this Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake desktop.
