Gave it quick run on Arc again. It behaved very well on plasma 6.1 beta and mesa 24.1 during a few hours in a “normal workday”. Didn’t try something “crazy” like starting steam though.
There was some occasional microstutter, but no biggy. Intel-gpu-top still missing in action.
GLXGears gave a very eye-opening frame rate…averaged at: 1400FPS !!!
glxgears on i915 reports 6000+ fps here?
At the end of the day I would love to run Xe, but the big showstopper is still that Xe wont support video encoding - at least on Arc.
I get a note that glxgears is synchronized to the vertical refresh…averaging 60~70…so I can’t see the numbers you are seeing…I’m not seeing any studdering or other problems…maybe due to running the A750. My plan is to get a BattleMage after the initial rush is over…
I’m running vblank_mode=0 glxgears -info on plasma wayland.
I wouldn’t say there was stuttering, just occasionally, every few minutes, there was maybe a missing frame and I noticed a “little jump” that I’m not used to with i915.
Everything outright broken aside - like maybe games - the experience was totally fine.
Interesting…I do it that way & see 3000 FPS average…Running Gnome + Wayland. Wonder why the difference…A750 “should” be “better”… Must be the way Plasma renders vs Gnome.
The current news is looking good! https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-More-Last-Minute-6.11 & https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Xe-Next-BMG-PCI-IDs
And I have been using the driver on & off since the last Intel update…works nice, but still no detection with Steam & BOINC…so I get to wait another month for the next update.
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