Intel Arc B580

CM4 Functionality	Pi 5 Functionality	Driver Required?	More Info
None	Full	Yes	GitHub Issue

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Description and Notes

The Intel Arc B580 is Intel’s second generation standalone graphics card, in the ‘Battlemage’ series. The Xe driver has improved a bit since the first generation ‘Archimedes’ cards, but is still a little rough.

Physically, it requires a x16 PCIe socket. You will need to supply about 225W to the card directly through it’s two 8-pin PCIe power plugs.

Xe Open Source Driver

To get the Xe driver loaded, you have to recompile the Linux kernel for Pi OS on the 6.15 branch (rpi-6.15.y) or later.

Go to Device Drivers > Graphics support on the menuconfig step, and select the Xe driver to install.

Before compiling the kernel, run make menuconfig and set:

1. Device Drivers > Graphics support > Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) > Intel Xe Graphics
2. Device Drivers > Graphics support > Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) > Intel Xe Graphics > Force probe xe for selected Intel hardware IDs > * (enter * manually for the value)

There are a few other tweaks that need to be made to get this card to output a signal and work with Vulkan, OpenGL, etc. on a Pi.

See the linked GitHub issue for more details.

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