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Intel Xe is such a huge deal in the graphics card world, even if we don't know much about it
For so long the best graphics cards have been represented by only two companies: Nvidia and AMD
the only Intel Xe graphics cards we know we're getting any time soon are going to be in Intel Tiger Lake CPUs, acting as integrated
graphics, much in the same way as Ice Lake's Gen11 Intel Iris graphics
Intel's first Xe graphics card is officially a thing
We have already got some GPUs for Exascale computing, but we know that consumer-facing GPUs will eventually make their way to market
know is that Intel Xe will see the light of day in some form in 2020
Team Blue kind of did the same thing at CES 2020, but this time clarified that these renders were for PCIe versions of the DG1 mobile chip
that it would send to developers, so that they could code on the new hardware
released a graphics tuning software, even updating it very recently with a video recording feature
It's not quite as robust as the offerings from AMD and Nvidia, but it could point to Intel preparing to release gaming-ready graphics
(or until the release date gets leaked, as is likely to happen).Intel Xe prototype shroud design (Image credit: Future)Intel graphics cards
Since then, however, Intel has since come out and clarified that Koduri was talking about the mainstream market starting at that price point
and not future Intel graphics cards starting at that price
the actual launch of Intel Xe graphics cards, it's hard to nail down how much we'll have to pay for Team Blue's GPUs
And, because this would be the first generation of Intel graphics cards, we can't exactly look to the past to try and suss out how much
graphics cards do? (Image credit: Intel)Intel graphics cards specsUsually, this is the part of the story where we dive into past releases
and try to guess what the future products are going to look like
well for team blue.That doesn't mean that there isn't anything out there that we can take a look at
For instance, we saw a iDG2HP512, which looks like a bunch of random numbers and letters at first glance
However, if you take DG to mean 'discrete graphics' and the 512 to signify the number of EUs (execution units), we can get a rough idea of
For comparison's sake, in Intel's latest Ice Lake processors that sport Gen11 integrated graphics, the beefiest GPU only has 64 EUs
Intel is claiming that these discrete Intel graphics should be an order of magnitude faster than the integrated Gen11 graphics on Ice Lake
is already twice as fast as Whiskey Lake's graphics
where it was able to run Destiny 2
For a new graphics card from AMD or Nvidia, this would hardly be noteworthy, but it does mean that Intel Xe graphics cards actually work in
not this will be an enterprise-level feature
However, now that we know the PS5 and Xbox Project Scarlett will feature ray tracing, Intel may need to include this capabilities in its
it comes to software, too
new GPUs, they need to be capable of 4K gaming, and they need to be priced competitively
If Intel is able to hit these two marks, we could see Intel competing in the bloodthirsty GPU marketplace
