I have a family member who is in need of a new GPU just for hardware AV1 encoding. There is not going to be any gaming or compute being done on the GPU whatsoever, so the logical option is the Intel Arc A380, but to be honest I haven’t seen any reliable information on the state of the Intel Arc drivers in Linux. Just wondering if anyone has experience of using these cards on Tumbleweed specifically. The alternative is the AMD RX 7600, which is quite a bit more expensive.
Edit: Oh, this is on a pretty old (PCIe 2.0) motherboard: I presume that ReBAR (or the lack of) will be of utterly no significance in the usecase of literally just outputting an image and encoding/decoding video?
I also have a PCIe2 board and have had no problems decoding videos … don’t know about encoding them … probably will (just slowly) … my card is Nvidia so Cuda (with a massive 640 cores) Rebar doesn’t seem to be an issue
I have an A310 coupled with a Quadro T400 in one setup, it’s running the Xe driver, no tools for checking, but it is working AFAIKT. Primary desktop has an A380 coupled with a Quadro RTX4000 no issues with the likes of VLC, Handbrake etc (flatpak versions). They both will run at PCIe 3.0 x8 with norebar, performance is down about 1/3 but still sufficient driving three 1080P screens @100Hz.
It works with compute automatically here on GNOME for applications that call for it.
I’ve converted short RAW videos from my GoPro in Shotcut to MPEG … it was reasonably quick … now I have a kidney up for sale on Ebay to get a proper GPU/MOBO setup for DOOM:DarkAges … AMD and Intel handle shared VRAM much better than current Nvidia drivers (not at all)
Rebar doesn’t seem to be an issue