Request for XeSS Support on Linux – Important for Future Intel GPU Purchases

[Carky]

Dear Intel Graphics Team,

As a Linux user and potential customer, I’m deeply disappointed to see that Intel XeSS is not officially supported on Linux, despite being advertised as a cross-platform solution.

For many of us, XeSS was a major selling point of Intel Arc GPUs — offering performance close to DLSS and better quality than FSR. However, the current state of XeSS under Linux is either completely unsupported or limited to fallback modes, with no access to XMX acceleration or proper driver/API integration.

I urge you to:

• Provide official XeSS support for Linux, including Proton/Wine compatibility.

• Open up the necessary APIs (XMX, SYCL, etc.) to allow proper implementation.

• Communicate transparently about your roadmap for Linux support.

Without XeSS, I — like many in the Linux gaming community — will likely reconsider purchasing Intel GPUs and stick with vendors that offer full feature parity across platforms.

Sincerely,

Marc

[JedG_Intel]

Hello Carky,

I fully understand your perspective. We greatly appreciate your feedback as a potential customer and thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. I will investigate this issue internally and will get back to you at the earliest opportunity.

Best regards,

Jed G.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[JedG_Intel]

Hi Carky,

Thank you for your valuable feedback. We greatly appreciate your input as we continuously strive to enhance our products. However, to set the correct expectations, given our current resource constraints, we are unable to commit to implementing this in the short term. Please be assured that your suggestion will be carefully considered for future development.

Having shared this, I will now close this inquiry. Should you have other concerns, please submit a new question as this thread will no longer be monitored.

Best regards,

Jed G.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[AlwaysProblemsOnLinux]

All of the big GPU companies are rivaling the AI market now, sadly we are not the highest priority for Intel right now. They got support for Ubuntu but thats not even for Gaming. Intel is leaning far too back in their chair when it comes to the Intel Arc GPUs, they think they allready have everything sorted out. I can't even use Blender with the Cycles Render Engine because it's not working on my Linux machine, tried everything. Until then I will have to have a seccond drive for Windows, it sucks.

[Vixi]

Using this driver + the build from blender.org fixed it for me. Arc B580 renders like a dream: https://github.com/intel/level-zero-raytracing-support

[Vixi]

I built an intel PC using off the shelf parts to prototype a Linux based gaming device I'm designing and I'm finding this is a major issue for newer games.

I could've done a more powerful AMD build for less, but Battlemage and Arrow Lake convinced me that after all these years, Intel is starting to show potential and I wanted to explore breaking status quo and integrating Intel's technologies into my hardware.

If intel doesn't step it up, system designers will be forced to stick with AMD.