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Intel DG1 GPU incompatible with the AMD Ryzen platform and high-end Intel mobos
Yesterday we posted a news item in which Intel announced the Iris Xe, 10nm DG1 GPU with its 640 Shader Units. The cards are OEM-based and end up in pre-built systems. New information indicated that these Xe cards would not be compatible with AMD's Ryzen platform.
Not just that, the colleagues from Legit Reviews learned from Intel that the Iris Xe graphics card could only be used with 9th and 10th generation desktop processors (that would be Coffee Lake-S and Comet Lake-S). To be able to be compatible with the DG1 GPU, the motherboards need a special bios as well.
Only motherboards based on B460, H410, B365, or H310C chipset will be provided with this bios update, which means not even the Z series would be compatible. It is unclear whether Intel wants to support more platforms in the future; we assume they will.
Also, yesterday's news indicated Colorful to be a Xe AIB partner; that news is incorrect. Colorful posted a statement on Facebook, stating that the Chinese manufacturer is not involved in producing the DG1 video cards. It looks like Intel made a mistake on its website. The photo of the model with the blue accent literally mentioned Colorful in the URL on the Intel website, quite bizarre.
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#5882045 Posted on: 01/28/2021 03:00 PM
What the fu...!?
Either Intel is going to solve this with new BIOS release for this graphics card ot else it's DOA.
No way most motherboard manufacturers would bother to release new BIOS updates for bunch of EOL Z390 based motherboards, probably not even for most Z490 boards, not to mention 2xx and 1xx chipset generation.
Also not compatible with Ryzen platform, wth!?
It should be resolved by Intel themselves, period. Either Intel is goin to make propper BIOS for those DG1 GPU graphics cards before release date or else they just wasted time, human resources and money on this.
How somehing like this could happen in this time and age, it's just insane.
What the fu...!?
Either Intel is going to solve this with new BIOS release for this graphics card ot else it's DOA.
No way most motherboard manufacturers would bother to release new BIOS updates for bunch of EOL Z390 based motherboards, probably not even for most Z490 boards, not to mention 2xx and 1xx chipset generation.
Also not compatible with Ryzen platform, wth!?
It should be resolved by Intel themselves, period. Either Intel is goin to make propper BIOS for those DG1 GPU graphics cards before release date or else they just wasted time, human resources and money on this.
How somehing like this could happen in this time and age, it's just insane.
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#5882077 Posted on: 01/28/2021 04:19 PM
and to think I might have considered buying one some day.
and to think I might have considered buying one some day.
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#5882078 Posted on: 01/28/2021 04:20 PM
What the fu...!?
Either Intel is going to solve this with new BIOS release for this graphics card ot else it's DOA.
No way most motherboard manufacturers would bother to release new BIOS updates for bunch of EOL Z390 based motherboards, probably not even for most Z490 boards, not to mention 2xx and 1xx chipset generation.
Also not compatible with Ryzen platform, wth!?
It should be resolved by Intel themselves, period. Either Intel is goin to make propper BIOS for those DG1 GPU graphics cards before release date or else they just wasted time, human resources and money on this.
How somehing like this could happen in this time and age, it's just insane.
I think this is how they solved it.
Is not that there is something to solve here, they decided it can run just on restricted OEM partners.
The reason behind it probably purely commercial and not technical
What the fu...!?
Either Intel is going to solve this with new BIOS release for this graphics card ot else it's DOA.
No way most motherboard manufacturers would bother to release new BIOS updates for bunch of EOL Z390 based motherboards, probably not even for most Z490 boards, not to mention 2xx and 1xx chipset generation.
Also not compatible with Ryzen platform, wth!?
It should be resolved by Intel themselves, period. Either Intel is goin to make propper BIOS for those DG1 GPU graphics cards before release date or else they just wasted time, human resources and money on this.
How somehing like this could happen in this time and age, it's just insane.
I think this is how they solved it.
Is not that there is something to solve here, they decided it can run just on restricted OEM partners.
The reason behind it probably purely commercial and not technical
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#5882130 Posted on: 01/28/2021 05:56 PM
Its probably a garbage card that performs extremely poorly, so this isn't really an issue. If they actually do this as a business model for all their GPU's though no one is going to buy these cards, quite literally.
Its probably a garbage card that performs extremely poorly, so this isn't really an issue. If they actually do this as a business model for all their GPU's though no one is going to buy these cards, quite literally.
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It's dead before it even arrived. Great practice to try and lock down a system. I guess they thought that in prebuilt PCs for office it will be all peachy, but no one will buy it as a standalone card, making the product basically irrelevant. Even IBM didn't have enough hubris to lock down modern day PCs to accept only their own HW, but somehow 40 years later, Intel has decided that they can.