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Comment by whalesalad

6 hours ago

Anyone running an ARC card for desktop Linux who can comment on the experience? I've had smooth sailing with AMD GPU's but have never tried Intel.

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oakpond  6 hours ago

Running dual Pro B60 on Debian stable mostly for AI coding.

I was initially confused what packages were needed (backports kernel + ubuntu kobuk team ppa worksforme). After getting that right I'm now running vllm mostly without issues (though I don't run it 24/7).

At first had major issues with model quality but the vllm xpu guys fixed it fast.

Software capability not as good as nvidia yet (i.e. no fp8 kv cache support last I checked) but with this price difference I don't care. I can basically run a small fp8 local model with almost 100k token context and that's what I wanted.

  • lostmsu  37 minutes ago

    > small fp8 local model with almost 100k token context

    Would not fit Qwen3.5 27B would it? That's the SOTA

Levitating  4 hours ago

Afaik driver support is very complete on Linux. You often see Arc GPUs used in media transcoding workloads for that reason.

  • HerbManic  2 hours ago

    We can all agree that Intel absolutely nailed it with the media encoding on these things. A nice to have for many, vital for others.

    • whalesalad  2 hours ago

      quicksync has been around for ages its surprising to me that other platorms have not adopted this. no reason a modern cpu can't transcode video.

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robertVance  5 hours ago

Ive ran arc on fedora for years and for general desktop use it’s been perfect. For llm’s/coding it’s getting better but it’s rough around the edges. Had a bug where trying to get vram usage through pytorch would crash the system, ect.

bpye  4 hours ago

My B580 works fine on Linux. Graphics perf is a bit worse than under Windows, but supposedly compute is pretty much the same.