Intel Xe graphics card spotted in benchmark database (no benchmarks though).

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/08/2019 09:29 AM | source: https://twitter.com/KOMACHI-ENSAKA | 28 comment(s)

By 2020 Intel's first graphics cards based on the Xe architecture will be released. The first test phase has already been completed, as Intels Robert "Bob" H. Swan mentioned in a statement after the announcement of the quarterly results in late October - it was an "important milestone ."

Now all of the sudden an entry in the benchmark database of GFXBench is spotted. There, a device named "Graphics gfx-driver-user-feature_dg1_poweron-27723 DCH ReleaseInternal" listed. The abbreviation "dg1" stands for Discrete Graphics 1 and has long been associated with Intel's Xe architecture. The latest discovery was made by the @KOMACHI.

No real benchmark was performed or the results have been restricted from viewing neither will; you be able to read out specs, but only a so-called power-on test - the card was put into operation. Instead of detailed results you will find only "N/A" (not available). But this at least proves the functionality of the GPU and the device drivers. Rumors assume up to 512 EUs (execution units) for Xe, which should be about the same as the performance of a Geforce RTX 2080. Xe graphics cards are expected somehwere in the middle of 2020 at the earliest.

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K.S.
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#5729787 Posted on: 11/09/2019 06:06 PM

"Hiding in plain sight"

What process are these XE graphics cards running on, is it 10nm? I seem to recall it is.

Weren't they running Samsung 7 nm or something like that?

10nm by mid-2020
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20191016PD204.html

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#5729885 Posted on: 11/10/2019 01:35 AM

xxxx-like price for 60% performance and true driver support for less 2 years? No tank you. (change 2080 with everything else other IHV GPU model Intel every-time claimed to be superior to).. Intel driver support has always been a joke.

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#5729895 Posted on: 11/10/2019 02:44 AM

Best I can do is tree fiddy, and I'd be long money on that.

How many memes am I allowed to combined for what I think will happen? Hopefully Intel don't pull and Intel and it actually causes some competition to happen.

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#5729916 Posted on: 11/10/2019 05:12 AM

Hmm well considering Intel's fight in the cpu market as of current. It's not cost-efficient to further weaken relationships with any market. Failing at DGPU could impact Intel's perception with stakeholders; something the company is strong enough to weather but rather avoid. There's been question regarding action during AMD's significant comeback; yet on paper Intel remains footed and I'd say this is part of a strategy to further diversify their portfolio and possibly bolster their GPU foundation - something the company has always been lacking in for whatever ungodly reason. I'm saying, a demo of sorts to the industry as it were prior to more SOCs, Server implementations, etc. I could see Intel wanting to dig harder into AI as well. This market that AMD & NVIDIA have wrestled over for years has significant earnings and now - competition. If taken advantage of. Hell - Google which dropped NVIDIA to manufacturer their own hardware for many projects among them AI, facial recog etc. And now - a massive upcoming streaming platform, Stadia with considerable earning potential backed by custom grade DGPUs from AMD furthering the point here & significance of component graphics hardware in modern enterprise environments, not just the home. You can see why a manufacturing giant like Intel would love to get something like DGPU right, if anything price being the least factor - it may simply be too little, too late.

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#5729983 Posted on: 11/10/2019 03:38 PM

Look at this one:

https://wccftech.com/intel-xe-gpu-architecture-2x-performance-ray-tracing-support/

Look at those images, 3 pictures, bottom of the page, card looks luxurious, real beauty!

Here's one of them, look at it, Jesus:

<--------FANTASY

Reality------>

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