Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10

When it came to the OpenCL performance, there were some slight improvements going from Ubuntu 23.04 to Ubuntu 23.10 using the intel-opencl-icd package provided on Ubuntu Linux. The Arc Graphics DG2/Alchemist compute support has been in relatively good shape since this past spring, so the lack of change between Ubuntu releases isn't too surprising. Intel's open-source OpenCL driver stack continues to expose OpenCL 3.0 for DG2/Alchemist GPUs.

Where things get much more interesting is when evaluating the OpenGL performance with the Ubuntu 23.10 upgrade. On the graphics side there's been some nice improvements made over the summer to the Intel Mesa code and in turn now found out-of-the-box with Ubuntu 23.10. Even more exciting are the even larger upgrades on the horizon with Mesa 23.3.

The Arc Graphics state in Ubuntu 23.04 was already much better than the performance found on Linux when the Arc Graphics A-series debuted last year while now on Ubuntu 23.10 and looking ahead at the latest development code, there's nice improvements continuing.