This got us thinking, is Intel Iris Xe graphics “good enough” for a budget gaming rig? Why? Simple, these new methods tend to be lower costs. Now mobile gaming is taking off to compete with the PC as well. Consoles opened up a bigger doorway into gaming with some sacrifices, though they have massively improved. If you wanted the game to look the best and have the best controls, PC is where it was at. For the longest time, PC gaming was the dominant market force. It is no longer a young person’s hobby as people of all ages tend to game, even old fogeys like me. All the same, 2023 is looking like an interesting one for Linux users.Gaming seems to always be increasing. Might this shiny new driver get some shiny new hardware to support? I’m hopeful we’ll see more Intel Xe graphics cards this year - though that’s not a given at this point. The existing Intel i915 driver will continue to be available in the Linux kernel. The intention of this new driver is to have a fresh base to work from that is unencumbered by older platforms, whilst also taking the opportunity to rearchitect our driver to increase sharing across the drm subsystem, both leveraging and allowing us to contribute more towards other shared components… Intel’s Matthew Brostīrost notes that the code is ‘already functional’, is designed to support different host architectures (including ARM), and has initial support implemented in Mesa, and a NEO (OpenCL) implantation is coming soon. Intel’s Matthew Brost explains more in the driver submission:
Instead, devs can focus solely on newer, modern hardware instead. Starting anew frees Intel devs from needing to carry the baggage that comes from supporting old hardware that old. Though under active development at present, Intel say the new driver will be production-ready this year.īut why build a new Intel graphics driver at all? Isn’t the existing one good enough?Īs Phoronix remark, the roots of the current Intel i915 DRM kernel graphics driver go back twenty years ago. It will support Intel’s 11th gen integrated graphics and newer, as well as discrete Intel Xe graphics cards. The new Intel Xe kernel graphics driver was announced before Christmas. Intel is building a brand-new graphics driver for Linux.
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