Intel gpu could launch in March

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel...ould-launch-as-soon-as-March-26.528402.0.html

Cum grano saltis BUT seeing the current gpu shortages this would be THE moment for Intel to make a move and seduce impatient buyers.

 

its not exactly competing with a rtx 3080. but competition is good

 

Rumor has it it's on TSMC 7nm.. I dunno how much allocation they could possibly have.

 

Doesn't intel have its own fabs?

 

They don't have 7nm operational yet, I couldn't see them trying this on 10nm+++++ Super Fin or 14nm. Word is they farmed it out to TSMC for 7nm.

Quick google confirms 3rd Party Fab: https://www.anandtech.com/show/1597...r-enthusiast-gamers-built-at-a-thirdparty-fab

Which one is perhaps not known yet.



Lol.. Intel's 10nm process is starting to sound like the title of a squeenix 5th iteration derivative of one of the final fantasy

10nm ENHANCED ++++ SUPERFIN EXTREME ZERO 2/3rds INTEGRITELY LOVE.IO

 

Further 'leaks' on DG2 SKUs: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-c...ics2-dg2-will-offer-up-to-512-execution-units

 

What would be the Nvidia equivalent?

 

no one knows yet but the last time i heard the xe gpu was targeting mx 450 or mx250 so it won't be high end like the 6900xt

 

You missed that DG2 targets rtx 3070 performance

 

Source Intel’s Xe DG2 graphics to get 512 EUs and AMD-rivalling shader power | PC Gamer

Intel’s Xe DG2 graphics to get 512 EUs and AMD-rivalling shader power


By Jeremy Laird January 06, 2021

(Image credit: Intel)

Intel’s upcoming DG2 high-performance desktop graphics card will pack up to 512 execution units and rival AMD’s latest RDNA 2 GPUs for raw graphics processing power. That’s the exciting, if not fully confirmed, implication of device ID entries included in Intel’s latest graphics driver dump.


Previous rumours regarding Intel’s new GPU have indicated a more modest 128 to 384 EU count. But as spotted by Videocardz.com, Intel’s latest 100.9126 GPU driver has device ID entries indicating two variants of the new DG2 card, the high-performance take on Intel’s latest Xe graphics architecture.

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Intel has already said DG2 will be produced on a third party production node, thought to be TSMC’s 7nm or 6nm node. Given DG1 is aimed at power and heat constrained notebooks, it’s reasonable to assume significantly higher clocks for the desktop DG2 board.

Factor in 512 EUs and higher clocks and DG2 looks like it should offer raw graphics processing power to rival AMD’s latest Navi chips. Assume 30 percent higher clocks than DG1 and you get a DG2 board with 17TFLOPs. Bump that to 50 percent higher clocks and DG2 would be good for around 20TFLOPs. That just happens to be bob-on AMD’s claims for the Radeon RX 6900 XT.

Of course, raw shader power is far from a clear guide to actual gaming performance. After all, Nvidia says the GeForce RTX 3090 is capable of over 35TFLOPs of FP32 throughput, which implies an entirely unrealistic performance advantage over AMD’s best GPU. There’s far more to actual in-game frame rates than pure processing power as measured in TFLOPs.

However, the fact that Intel’s DG2 looks to be in roughly the right ballpark for raw shader power is certainly promising. This latest information is also in line with previous rumours indicating DG2 could offer performance roughly in line with Nvidia's RTX 3070 boards. With the supply of both AMD and Nvidia’s new GPUs painfully tight and pricing increasingly spiralling out of control, a third entrant into the market can only be a good thing.

In short, Intel’s Xe graphics needn’t be the absolute fastest thing out there to have a very positive impact on the market generally. More options and lower prices would be very welcome indeed.


Intel DG2 GPU To Get Released This Year features Ray Tracing support natively
by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/20/2021 02:03 PM | source: | 43 comment(s)

Intel's senior vice president of graphics products division, Raja Koduri, commented in a Tweet about the launch date of the DG2 graphics card; it will be manufactured by TSMC at a 6nm process and will employ the Xe-HPG architecture, which supports Ray Tracing natively.

Koduri said in an interaction a few days ago that there are many things to look forward to in 2021, and two graphics department executives, saying that their team is preparing for high-performance products



Koduri betokens that the Intel DG2s will arrive in 2021 and aim to make a place for themselves on desktop PCs. The comment comes from a thread from engineer Jeremy Soller, who commented on why he's looking forward to Intel graphics cards. Intel DG2 would arrive in two models, one with 4096 Shaders (512 CUs), 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, the other with 1024 Shaders (128 CU), and 6 GB of GDDR6 memory. Both will be based on the Xe-HPG architecture, thus have support for Ray Tracing. Intel will leave to TSMC the manufacture of DG2, which will use the 6nm EUV process. This will be promoted by the Taiwanese manufacturer this year, which is based on an improvement of 7nm.

Previously, some media also gave a possible price range of DG2 graphics cards, 400 to 600 US dollars, which means that its performance should meet RTX 3060 and RTX 3070 levels. But that is highly speculative.


source Intel DG2 GPU To Get Released This Year features Ray Tracing support natively (guru3d.com)

 

TSMC sweet so the DG2 will be available sometime in 2022-23.