My main desktop, that I use to game on, is approaching 5 years old. It's a System76 Thelio Mira, and has been starting to show its age. I recently upgraded the CPU to the best I could get, without swapping motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 5600X. I upped the memory to 64 GB, and the last upgrade I could easily to is to replace my old NVidia GeForce RTX 2060.

I've been trolling for an Intel Arc B580, mainly for the bang-for-the-buck performance. They have been selling for a lot over MSRP, but that seems to be common for all. I finally was able to get one a Microcenter for $329, the cheapest I've seen in months.

I use PopOS! on my desktop, and have been waiting for at lest the Beta release of Cosmic to upgrade, so am currently running on 22.04 LTS.

Installing was very simple. I followed the few steps on Intel's website:
https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/driver/client/overview.html#ubuntu-22.04

I powered off, swapped GPUs, and booted up, and it booted right up successfully. I then purged all the NVidia software/drivers, and rebooted without issue. Nothing further was needed.

I don't play AAA games much. My son plays Minecraft, and Jurassic World Evolution. I had installed Witcher 3 as a test right before swapping the cards.

The only hiccup in Steam was I needed to disable the Shader Pre-caching, then re-enabled (to force it to re-do it on the new GPU). Everything is butter smooth, without any other consideration. The whole system runs cooler too. I then installed Tiny Glade, which is known for stressing GPUs. It runs very well.

I've read some games do weird things on this card, but I have yet to have any issues at all. So far I am extremely pleased. I even got OpenWebUI/Ollama running on this card (that's another post).

Anyways, not sure if anyone is interested, but figured someone may be on the fence with that oddball card.