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Intels Xe Dedicated Graphics card finds it way to pre-built PCs
It's a rather silent and particular release, but we wrote a while ago already that Intel would be releasing its entry-level solution dedicated cards injected through system builders, and that just happened.
The first PC equipped with a dedicated GPU from Intel is now on sale. The machine is available for purchase through Best Buy and listed as dedicated Intel Xe graphics. The CyberpowerPC is fully fitted with Intel hardware: based on a 6-core / 12-thread Core i5-11400F processor the PC is paired with an Intel Iris Xe (DG1) graphics card with 80 Execution Units (640 shading cores) The card has 4 GB of 4,266 MHz LPDDR4X memory and a 128-bit memory bus. So that's good for 68 GB/s of bandwidth. The card is listed at a TDP of 30W.
Everything screams entry-level GPU here, it however should be able to play a game or two at Full HD. Unfortunately, Intel has not seeded the card to media, so nobody knows anything about the final performance, image quality, and all other variables. Leaked yet early benchmarks indicated the card to be at the level of the AMD Radeon RX 550.
The second half of this year could become more interesting if and when Intel launches its Intel Xe DG2 GPUs.
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#5914269 Posted on: 05/21/2021 09:02 PM
If it was any good, it would be in every reviewer hand by now and news all over the internet.
LPDDR4X memory? Ahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahah
beat me to it
:p 
If it was any good, it would be in every reviewer hand by now and news all over the internet.
LPDDR4X memory? Ahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahah
beat me to it
:p
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#5914700 Posted on: 05/23/2021 09:40 PM
The significance of this isn't lost on me. However, anyone who's followed Xe development already knows it's more suited to mobile devices right now. In-fact, the performance will be similar to the new PC gaming handhelds like GPD Win 3 and ONEXPLAYER.
It's basically crap compared to what most of us have here, but, this is the first few steps. They did the igpu, then discrete version of that igpu, then, the next step they'll ramp it up for v2 of the desktop gpu which will be new territory for Intel in the consumer market.
An interesting scenario will likely present itself;
Do I buy the best (100%) performance gpus that I might have to wait months for, or, do I get the not quite as good (80%~) one for a lot cheaper and easier to get? and yes, the drivers will be the deciding factor in the end, it's make or break.
The significance of this isn't lost on me. However, anyone who's followed Xe development already knows it's more suited to mobile devices right now. In-fact, the performance will be similar to the new PC gaming handhelds like GPD Win 3 and ONEXPLAYER.
It's basically crap compared to what most of us have here, but, this is the first few steps. They did the igpu, then discrete version of that igpu, then, the next step they'll ramp it up for v2 of the desktop gpu which will be new territory for Intel in the consumer market.
An interesting scenario will likely present itself;
Do I buy the best (100%) performance gpus that I might have to wait months for, or, do I get the not quite as good (80%~) one for a lot cheaper and easier to get? and yes, the drivers will be the deciding factor in the end, it's make or break.
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#5915007 Posted on: 05/25/2021 12:01 AM
You'd think Intel would send some out with reviewers just to get some interest in better cards to come ... especially with the situation with AMD and nvidia cards not being available.
As long as people are told it is entry level and people don't have any high expectations people would be happy to read about it, and I know I certainly would.
I think they have missed an opportunity here.
Hilbert, can you send a begging letter to them? In this case I wouldn't even mind if you promised them that you would not rate it, just give the data ...
Like it or not, sometimes companies do not want their products reviewed and compared with other products--this GPU is bound to be underwhelming--seems it's OEM-only, too, so it won't be on the shelf anywhere. But if it was, why would you want it? When Intel can bring a GPU to market that it is proud of then I'm sure it will hit review sites. This card is exactly what I thought it would be. I could never figure out why some folks believed that Intel's first discrete GPU in decades would be competitive with AMD/nVidia.
You'd think Intel would send some out with reviewers just to get some interest in better cards to come ... especially with the situation with AMD and nvidia cards not being available.
As long as people are told it is entry level and people don't have any high expectations people would be happy to read about it, and I know I certainly would.
I think they have missed an opportunity here.
Hilbert, can you send a begging letter to them? In this case I wouldn't even mind if you promised them that you would not rate it, just give the data ...
Like it or not, sometimes companies do not want their products reviewed and compared with other products--this GPU is bound to be underwhelming--seems it's OEM-only, too, so it won't be on the shelf anywhere. But if it was, why would you want it? When Intel can bring a GPU to market that it is proud of then I'm sure it will hit review sites. This card is exactly what I thought it would be. I could never figure out why some folks believed that Intel's first discrete GPU in decades would be competitive with AMD/nVidia.
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#5915039 Posted on: 05/25/2021 04:56 AM
If this resembles their last OEM-only release then it is of no interest to anyone who visits this site. That one was horrendous. It wasn't even a standard card and it required a special motherboard that won't work with anything else. There are IGUs that work better than that one does.
If this resembles their last OEM-only release then it is of no interest to anyone who visits this site. That one was horrendous. It wasn't even a standard card and it required a special motherboard that won't work with anything else. There are IGUs that work better than that one does.
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If it was any good, it would be in every reviewer hand by now and news all over the internet.
LPDDR4X memory? Ahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahah
That's because this isn't the flagship, and doesn't even seem to be a mainstream model. Seems to me it's just a budget model. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the same thing you'd find in their 11th gen CPUs but with higher clock speeds and access to more memory bandwidth.
So yeah, this isn't worth reviewing because it's not the product Intel wants attention drawn toward.
Also doesn't help that Intel's Windows drivers for Xe are crap.