Intel Arc A380 + linux gaming: Testing Forza Horizon 4

In this video, I’ll be taking a look at Forza Horizon 4 on an Intel Arc A380 using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Linux. 🏎️💻
System Specs:
Intel Core i7 10700
64GB DDR4 3200Mhz Memory (was my original render rig and I haven't swapped the memory)
2TB Intel 670p NVME SSD: Game drive
1TB Crucial MX500 SSD: Boot drive
I'll be using an ASRock A380 low profile card, which is perfect for small form factor machines, especially those with low profile PCI slots.
I am curious about how much we could get out of this new card at 45 watts. I hope this can be the start of a series of videos where I see how much performance we can get out of the A380 LP's 45W of energy, on Linux!
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[@jonas_bento]

A shame the current Intel drivers for Linux are so bad still. Hopefully the new Xe driver will be actually good so I can start considering buying an Arc graphics card for my PC.

[@CompellingBytes]

It seems that a lot of Xe development is focused on Battlemage, so we'll have to wait til Battlemage.

[@NebulosityNexus]

@@CompellingBytes will it improve my iris igpu? 12th gen

[@CompellingBytes]

@@NebulosityNexus You're probably better off sticking with your current driver, i915, at the moment.

[@Winnetou17]

Does perfmon work on Linux ? You know, that opensource monitoring tool that Intel contributed significantly to, that was featured on Gamer's Nexus a few months ago, as it received an update, allowing you to see if it's CPU bottleneck or GPU bottleneck and in general more low level details. I'm curious if your A380 was actually 100% utilized. Because it's hard to say, given how pretty weak and also not on max power, if that isn't its actual capability.

[@CompellingBytes]

@@Winnetou17 if you look on the upper right corner of screen captures, you’ll see the utilization percentage of the gpu. The numbers I saw suggested that there was a cpu bottleneck because the GPU wasn’t hitting 100%. To answer your question about perfmon, I don’t believe thats supported on Linux, and its only a recent development that the driver developers for Linux are wiring up access to that data. Another thing to remember is that the Forza Horizon games don’t run as well on Linux as they do on Windows.

[@Winnetou17]

@@CompellingBytes Oh, I can't believe I didn't saw that in the upper right corner, lol. With perfmon, I was hoping that being open source it can be built anywhere, but you're right if the drivers don't expose data, then it doesn't have what to show. The road to games running perfectly on Linux sure is looong.