Valve Loosens AMD's Handheld Grip As SteamOS Gains Intel GPU Support

As a software vendor, it's dangerous to be beholden to a single hardware vendor. That's why this latest move from Valve is pretty savvy; the company seems to have added some support for Intel's Arc GPUs to its customized Arch Linux distribution known as SteamOS. This is borne out by both Reddit users who have installed it on desktops with discrete Arc GPUs as well as ETA PRIME's testing on the MSI Claw 8 AI+ Lunar Lake handheld with Arc 140V graphics.

We say "some" support because the users in the Reddit thread are reporting very mixed results on Arc B580 cards. The original poster notes that while some games, like Cyberpunk 2077 and Spider-Man Remastered, are running well, in other titles he's getting about half of the performance he would expect while running SteamOS, and other gamers in the thread have reported similar results. A couple of other...

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