Intel will launch its first dedicated graphics cards in 2020

Robert Sole 13 June, 2018

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Confirmed by Intel that the first graphics cards intended for 'gaming' will arrive in 2020, although there is no more data in this regard.

Rumors of a possible entry into the market for graphics cards dedicated to gaming have grown in recent months, especially after the incorporation of Raja Koduri, who has been one of the most responsible for the development of the AMD RX Vega. After months of rumors, Brian Krzanich, head of Intel, has said that the first dedicated GPUs from Intel will arrive in 2020, something that comes to verify the different leaks that have been taking place in recent months.

Intel will launch its first dedicated graphics cards in 2020.

So far, we did not have a clear roadmap regarding Intel's plans to enter the graphics market, although it is true that we did not have concrete data. Thus, in 2020, for the gaming market, there should be three major manufacturers: Intel, AMD and NVIDIA.

This also discards some rumors, which suggested that next year we could see some Intel GPUs on the market. The development of a GPU is usually three years, but in this case we are talking about two and a half years at the most, something quite ambitious and that forces Raja Koduri and his team, to give their best to achieve this goal.

Currently, according to the data we have, Intel is developing the Jupiter Sound and Arctic Sound. The first to arrive will be the Arctic Sound, discrete GPUs, which will be the 12th generation of graphics from the company. The rumors are that they will be based on EMIB and that they will have an implementation in processors quite similar to the Intel 8809G, which integrate AMD RX Vega graphics.

Everything indicates that Arctic Sound will have a version intended for gaming. What we do not know yet is whether Intel, from the outset, will be able to compete with NVIDIA for the high-end, although it seems quite clear that it will easily outperform AMD solutions, which are quite poor in performance and highly inefficient, as has been seen. with the RX Vega at 14nm, although it seems that Vega at 7nm will be more efficient.