Intels Arc B580 lacks support for linux

[Sjostrand]

I wounder when intels Arc B580 graphics card will have full suport in linux as the B580 has in windows.

Does there exist a future kernal version where intel B580 drivers have full support so all other graphics program like Darktable will be able to use Arc B580 maximal.

Is there a development timeline for the linux graphic drivers?

[JeanetteC_Intel]

Hello Sjostrand,

Thank you for posting in Intel Communities.

I'll check on this internally and I will post an update once it's available.

Best regards,

JeanetteC.

Intel® Customer Support Technician

[caplanr]

Hi,

Just to add to this question:

I just installed the B580 into my Linux machine that is running Rocky 9.5.

I had previously had an Arc 750 LE installed and had it working for OneAPI/ifx codes.

When I run "lspci" it identifies the card as Battlemage, but intel-smi, intel_gpu_top, and xpu-smi do not recognize it:

> lspci | grep VGA:

> 36:08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Battlemage G21 [Intel Graphics]

>  intel_gpu_top

> No device filter specified and no discrete/integrated i915 devices found

Linux  6.10.6-1.el9.elrepo.x86_64

Rocky Linux 9.5 (Blue Onyx)

 - Ron

[JeanetteC_Intel]

Hello caplanr,

Thank you for posting in Intel Communities.

I understand that you are also facing the Linux problem with your Intel® Arc™ B580 Graphics. However, I kindly request that you create a new thread for your case. This will allow us to focus on your specific problem and provide you with better assistance.  

Sincerely,

JeanetteC.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[James_Bell]

Hello Jeanette,

I am facing exactly  the same issue as described by Caplanr. I am running on Ubuntu-MATE with Linux kernel 6.13.4-061304-generic. I would appreciate if you could assist me to get the graphics card operational - I have installed the relevant Ubuntu drivers but intel_gpu_top still returns 'No device filter specified and no discrete/integrated i915 devices found'.

If there is another forum where this issue is discussed please send me a link.

Kind regards,

James Bell.

[JeanetteC_Intel]

Hello Sjostrand

I'm adding the original questions and the answers for clarity:

Q. I wonder when Intels Arc B580 graphics card will have full support in Linux as the B580 has in windows.

A. The B580 supports starts with Linux Kernel 6.12 and for distribution Ubuntu 24.10. I'm not sure what the customer refers to "full support" so perhaps the next answers can add clarity to this topic.

Q. Does there exist a future kernel version where intel B580 drivers have full support so all other graphics programs like Darktable will be able to use Arc B580 maximal?

A. The kernel 6.12 is the first one to introduce full support for Intel B580 (Battlemage). If an application is not working correctly then this can be handled as a bug. We need to set the correct expectations that bug handling on Linux does not receive the same priority as a bug in Windows.

The vast majority of Alchemist and Battlemage users are clients on Windows platform and as such the debug and development work on bugs receive the highest priority. More so, the release cadency for driver updates on Windows is usually every other week while on Linux bug fixes can take months to be included in a release.

Q. Is there a development timeline for the Linux graphic drivers?

A. We do not discuss this publicly.

I hope the information above helped.

Best regards,

JeanetteC.

Intel® Customer Support Technician

[Aqualung]

For the life of me, I just cannot get this card to work with the latest Linux kernel (6.15.x). I recall making it work with one of the previous kernels (don't exactly recall which one though), but now it's just not working. I am using Intel's own Clear Linux #43580. Here's the story as detailed in the CL forums, and here it is on CL's Github Issues. Here below is some diagnostic data (ASMedia 246x is the eGPU dock that hosts the Arc B580):

dad@DadsGram~ $ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 04)
32:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device e20b

dad@DadsGram~ $ boltctl list
 ● ASMedia 246x
   ├─ type:          peripheral
   ├─ name:          246x
   ├─ vendor:        ASMedia
   ├─ uuid:          0a514c17-00f1-276d-ffff-ffffffffffff
   ├─ generation:    USB4
   ├─ status:        authorized
   │  ├─ domain:     d2358780-f1d2-6ce3-ffff-ffffffffffff
   │  ├─ rx speed:   40 Gb/s = 2 lanes * 20 Gb/s
   │  ├─ tx speed:   40 Gb/s = 2 lanes * 20 Gb/s
   │  └─ authflags:  none
   ├─ authorized:    Sun 08 Jun 2025 06:51:23 PM UTC
   ├─ connected:     Sun 08 Jun 2025 06:51:22 PM UTC
   └─ stored:        Tue 18 Feb 2025 08:57:51 PM UTC
      ├─ policy:     iommu
      └─ key:        no

[caplanr]

Hi all,

Just adding a data point here in case it is helpful.

I was unable to get the B580 working with Rocky 9.5, however I got it working with Ubuntu 22.04.

I should note that "working" here means I can run computations on the card - I have not tried using it as a graphics card for display.

I had to install the 6.14.9-zabbly+ kernel:

```

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zabbly-kernel-stable.sources
Enabled: yes
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: https://pkgs.zabbly.com/kernel/stable
Suites: jammy
Components: main
Architectures: amd64
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/zabbly.asc

```

I also had to install the latest Intel OneAPI HPC Toolkit and activate it with the included setup script:

```
. /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
```

I also installed various ubuntu intel packages including `xserver-xorg-video-intel`.

Running the latest OpenCL Benchmark (https://github.com/ProjectPhysX/OpenCL-Benchmark) yields:

```

|----------------.------------------------------------------------------------|
| Device ID | 1 |
| Device Name | Intel(R) Arc(TM) B580 Graphics |
| Device Vendor | Intel(R) Corporation |
| Device Driver | 25.13.33276 (Linux) |
| OpenCL Version | OpenCL C 3.0 |
| Compute Units | 160 at 2850 MHz (2560 cores, 14.592 TFLOPs/s) |
| Memory, Cache | 12215 MB VRAM, 18432 KB global / 128 KB local |
| Buffer Limits | 11605 MB global, 11883724 KB constant |
|----------------'------------------------------------------------------------|
| Info: OpenCL C code successfully compiled. |
| FP64 compute 0.898 TFLOPs/s (1/16) |
| FP32 compute 14.417 TFLOPs/s ( 1x ) |
| FP16 compute 27.089 TFLOPs/s ( 2x ) |
| INT64 compute 0.646 TIOPs/s (1/24) |
| INT32 compute 4.526 TIOPs/s (1/3 ) |
| INT16 compute 39.466 TIOPs/s ( 2x ) |
| INT8 compute 49.065 TIOPs/s ( 4x ) |
| Memory Bandwidth ( coalesced read ) 585.68 GB/s |
| Memory Bandwidth ( coalesced write) 475.42 GB/s |
| Memory Bandwidth (misaligned read ) 868.09 GB/s |
| Memory Bandwidth (misaligned write) 391.42 GB/s |
| PCIe Bandwidth (send ) 0.80 GB/s |
| PCIe Bandwidth ( receive ) 0.84 GB/s |
| PCIe Bandwidth ( bidirectional) (Gen1 x16) 0.82 GB/s |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'

```

Hope this helps!

 - Ron