Intel ARC graphics cards seem to support Resizable BAR (ReBAR) during or after launch. ReBAR technology can improve the frame rate performance of games that support the feature. This list of games is pretty short right now, but it would be nice to see ReBAR support in Intel’s upcoming ARC graphics cards.

A report by Phoronix explains that Intel developers are working on Linux driver support. According to the notes of the latest kernel patches, ReBAR support is also on the way with Linux support. This might speed up the gaming experience on the Linux side, but will users want to switch from Windows to Linux?

Intel ARC will let you play on Linux

For those who don’t know, let’s explain ReBAR technology a little bit. The ReBAR feature is a PCI Express technology that can increase the framerate performance of certain games by allowing the CPU to access its entire buffer. That is, it allows the computer to communicate with large chunks of data on the CPU and GPU.

Unlike some other methods of increasing framerate performance, ReBAR is currently only supported by a small collection of games. Some of the best PC games like Red Dead Redemption 2 support this feature, but it’s not as common as its alternatives.

“Starting with Intel Alchemist (or DG2), we will have resizable BAR support for device local memory, although in some cases the final BAR size may still be smaller than the total local memory size,” says Intel’s notes for the ARC Linux patch. he explains. In such cases, only a portion of the local memory will be accessible to the CPU, while the rest will be accessed via the GPU.

Let’s remind you that NVIDIA has ReBar support on its RTX 30 series graphics cards, while AMD has a similar technology called Smart Access Memory.