[Jochim]

The main issue with ARC seems to be driver support in specific games, DX11 being particularly problematic.

Intel basically have to catch up on the ~10-20 years of kludges that AMD, Nvidia, and game devs had already implemented when the games were released.

They've been making strong improvements to their drivers though.

Their iGPU is great for home media servers. Low power draw, QuickSync can handle multiple 4k transcodes, and one less part to buy.

iGPUs still aren't a great choice for gaming on desktops, even the latest AMD APUs perform poorly in comparison to the cheaper dGPUs.

[immibis]

My Skylake iGPU ran everything on my PC just fine for me. That ranges from Minecraft to (apparently the most graphically intensive game I own) The Talos Principle. Sure, not always at the ultra high settings, but that's not something I care about.

Once I upgraded recently to a Threadripper I threw in an old GTX 760 because Threadrippers don't have iGPUs. The 760 also did fine. Now I finally have a bleeding-edge-ish Sparkle Arc A770, but that's only because I wanted to run a shader coding event and didn't want to force other people to care about the server having a behind-the-curve GPU.