It was more than 20 years since Intel released its latest graphics card, Intel740 from yesterday the company is officially back in the discrete GPU game.
Intel has partnered with Asus and several other graphics card partners to release Iris Xe desktop GPUs for system builders who want to include the new card in their prebuilt computers. The cards looks very different from the prototype Intel showed off at CES 2020, especially those supplied by the manufacturers different from Asus.
These new cards, originally with the code name DG1, is part of Intel’s Iris Xe graphics family, which manages the 11th generation Tiger Lake processors. The company has been planning to release several desktop solutions for a while, but Intel is still working on the Xe-HPG architecture, which will provide the company’s future GPUs and Nvidia and AMD.
TThe cards that Intel has just released are not the GPU graphics GPUs like Nvidia and AMD. Intel says these Iris Xe desktop cards are designed to provide value desktop PCs “improved graphics, display, and media acceleration capabilities. And the specification list seems to suggest exactly that: three display outputs; hardware video decoding and encryption acceleration, including AV1 decoding support; Displays HDR support and artificial intelligence; and 80 execution units (EU) and 4 GB of video memory.
In other words, these new GPUs look more focused on business or education-oriented computers. (Dell is the first company to come up with us.) Intel previously said that its Xe graphics will have up to 96 EU, so these desktop GPUs may be the last stop Intel has to make before releasing its focused cards.
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Last summer, Intel confirmed that its gaming GPUs hardware will be accelerated. At CES 2021, the company said it works in a way to enable both integrated and discreteat the same time the graphics on computers, enabling users to maximize the discrete GPU for gaming and load other tasks such as streaming and recording to the integrated GPU. It is also working with Nvidia to implement Resizable BAR on Intel CPU / Nvidia GPU combinations so that users can get a frame rate increase from certain games.
But if Intel is working on it with Nvidia, they might as well let their CPUs and GPUs talk to each other, just like AMD’s Smart Access Memory. Cocompiled using the power of a discrete and integrated GPU, not to mention ray tracing makes a compelling case that Intel can compete with Nvidia and AMD’s graphics cards. On averagehow well these DG1 cards perform as part of a complete system can very well set the expectations for Intel’s gaming GPUs.