Intel Arc Graphics A380: Compelling For Open-Source Enthusiasts & Developers At ~$139
From an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU desktop running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, I ran a number of graphics/gaming benchmarks for an initial look at the ASRock Challenger A380 performance. This system had resizable BAR support enabled for all tested hardware. NVIDIA cards were tested with their proprietary 515.65.01 driver. The AMD and Intel graphics cards were tested using Linux 6.0 Git as of 24 August and Mesa 22.3-devel as of the same date from the Oibaf PPA.
The Ryzen 7 5700G was running with the amd-pstate performance governor at stock speeds on an ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS motherboard with 16GB of DDR4-3600 memory, and 1TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe SSD. The tested graphics cards based on the lower-end SKUs I had available included the:
- Radeon RX 5500 XT
- Radeon RX 6400
- GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
- GeForce GTX 1060
- GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
- GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
- GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
- Intel Arc Graphics A380 (ASRock Challenger).
A variety of OpenGL and gaming benchmarks were then carried out. Given the low-end hardware, mostly at 1080p with lower-quality settings. Both native Linux games and titles running via Steam Play were tested for seeing how the Arc Graphics A380 runs on Linux.
Performance-per-dollar metrics based on current retail pricing for the graphics cards via NewEgg. Unfortunately, there isn't yet HWMON support for DG2/Alchemist on Linux. Hopefully that will get finished in time for Linux 6.1 but at the moment it means that with Linux 6.0 there isn't support for reading the GPU voltage or power consumption under Linux. As such unfortunately there are not any performance-per-Watt / power consumption metrics to show for the Arc Graphics A380 but that support is still being finished for Linux.