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Last year Intel made available a packaged 'Arc Graphics Driver' for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and later Ubuntu 23.04 to provide a DKMS-backported kernel driver and packaged Mesa driver to make it easier to use Arc Graphics (DG2/Alchemist) during the phase when the upstream kernel support was still stabilizing and not yet found out-of-the-box on Linux distributions at the time
While Linux 6.2 supports Arc Graphics out-of-the-box and Mesa 23.1 has good OpenGL/Vulkan support, for those running Linux distributions on older kernels and Mesa packages there is less than ideal support -- either no support at all or having to resort to force-enabling the DG2/Alchemist support and potentially running on older OpenGL/Vulkan drivers with various problems
Recently, early Arc A770 16GB buyers found that their graphics card's memory wasn't running as fast as it should. While Intel announced these GPUs with 17.5Gbps memory speeds, customers found their memory running at 16Gbps instead, reducing maximum bandwidth down from 560GB/s to 512GB/s. Now, Intel has fixed the issue with a new driver update. …
Intel Arc graphics driver '30.0.101.3268' has Game-On support for new titles, optimizes a bunch of older games, and squashes bugs all over the place.