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Then it changed, because early on I recall people reporting the drivers wouldn't work at all

Source? I don't know what happened for the Linux drivers, but the Windows drivers definitely booted and ran benchmarks without ReBAR when the Arc A380 launched, because there were lots of published comparisons of the performance impact on workloads that definitely didn't fit in 256MB.

Unfortunately I can't edit my earlier post, because I can't find it - might have been distorted rumour that reached me, then :/

Wasn't helped by my experience reacting very strongly to story of early Arc drivers being problematic because the devs were too used to GPU being just a ring-bus away ;-)

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