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If successful, Intel's next generation Battlemage graphics cards will benefit all gamers
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No open sources drivers, no buy
How do you not know that Intel has they same type of open source graphics driver like AMD? Their kernel module, OpenGL and Vulkan libraries are all free software, only requiring small firmware blobs. That's why Intel 'just werks' on Linux without having to download a 500mb kernel module or have a separate .iso available to download specific to the hardware.
That was a little rude. I have never read anything about these cards, thats exactly how. This article was the first thing. Drivers are mentioned once in the article, in a single sentence, not about the licensing.
Bro you came in pretty hot too.
Like a furnace, obvi.
At an absolute minimum! When Arc first came out I considered getting one just for the AV1 encoder, but there's very little else going for the whole line. An open-source driver at least makes the techier among us more likely to want to play with one.
There was some mesa bug that was over 2 years old that was just merged in recently that fixed a huge Arc bottleneck. It's embarrassing how bad the implementations are for both Windows and Linux.