AMD Radeon vs. Intel Arc Graphics With Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.0

With Unigine Superposition the benchmark results weren't as compelling for the Intel Arc Graphics but still here these Intel dGPUs with the Iris Gallium3D driver were at more competitive than seeing in some of the Vulkan-powered Linux gaming benchmarks.

The Arc Graphics gaming performance was decent in the OpenGL-powered Unvanquished open-source shooter game.

For the Warsow and Xonotic open-source games the Arc Graphics A750/A770 were both performing between the Radeon RX 6600 and Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics cards.

Across the entire span of benchmarks conducted for the Arc Graphics A750/A770 under Linux 6.2, these graphics cards were both pulling around 143 Watts on average with a peak of 192 Watts. That was similar to the results with the faster Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics.

Overall the Arc Graphics A750/A770 on the open-source Linux driver stack was coming in just shy of the Radeon RX 6600 but largely comes down to the particular games/workloads of interest to you. The Intel Arc Graphics with Mesa 23.0-devel were performing very well with some of the OpenGL workloads while when it comes to the more modern/popular games that rely on Vulkan, that is where the Arc Graphics driver still have room for improvement with the ANV Vulkan driver. There were also some games attempted to be tested like F1 22 that couldn't get past the loading screen or HITMAN 3 that wasn't rendering correctly. Hopefully Intel will be able to get their ANV driver into better shape soon for gaming with modern Steam Play games, but at least the experience has continued improving since launch. With Linux 6.2 there is also now at least the DG2/Alchemist support out-of-the-box, no stability issues were observed, and it's running off an open-source upstream driver stack similar to the AMD Radeon driver stack that is much loved by the Linux gaming/enthusiast community after years of work there.