It seems very clear that in 2021 we will have a new player in the graphic card market. Intel will launch its first dedicated desktop graphics card in 20 years next year. Specifically, it will launch two Xe Graphics products, the Xe-HP called Arctic Sound and the Xe-HPG also called DG2. These solutions would not come to compete in the high range, but in the mid range.
Xe-HP solutions have been created for the Data Center market and will come in three versions: 1-tile (512 EU), 2-tile (1024 EU) and 4-tiles (2048 EU). These graphic solutions will implement HBM2 memories due to their high bandwidth. The solutions for gaming computers will be the Xe-HPG and these graphics will use GDDR6 memory.
[amazon box=»B0883P56BM» title=»Intel Core i9-10900″ star_rating=»none» template=»table»]A benchmark leaks in Geekbench of a 512 EU Intel Xe-HP
Under the Geekbench software an Intel Xe-HP of 512 Execution Units has been seen, which would be a Xe-HP variant. It is interesting that this Gen 12 HP HD receives the name 'NEO Graphics'. The name 'NEO' was already seen during Architecture Day where the performance without FP32 processing was seen. At that time this graphics solution was called XeHP HD.
This benchmark shows new data regarding memory and its working frequency. Intel showed engineering samples at a frequency of 1.3GHz, while this leak shows it at 1.15GHz. We may be talking about an engineering sample or maybe a lower version. We also see that this Intel graphic would have 6.36GB, a very low amount of VRAM memory.
In addition, the Xe-HP of 512 Execution Units and the NVIDIA RTX 3070 graphics card have been compared. The truth is that this graphics, according to the data, seems to have very difficult to compete with the NVIDIA solutions. The RTX 3070 is twice or even more powerful than Intel's new graphics card.
Source: VZ
