What you need to know
- Intel's gaming graphics card is set to ship in 2021.
- Intel introduced its Xe-HPG microarchitecture, which supports accelerated ray tracing.
- Intel also announced that its first Xe-based discrete GPU should ship in 2020.
The news came during Intel's Architecture Day 2020, which shared several interesting bits of information as part of a presentation. The presentation gives us a better roadmap of Intel's upcoming plans regarding its chips, architecture, AI, and more. In addition to breaking down its next generation of architecture, Willow Cove, Intel discussed its Xe architecture.
A snippet of Intel's summary of the new microarchitecture summarizes how it works:
Xe-HPG, a gaming-optimized microarchitecture, combining good performance-per-watt building blocks from Xe-LP, leveraging the scale from Xe-HP for a bigger configuration and compute frequency optimization from Xe-HPC.
The technology utilizes a new memory subsystem that's based on GDDR6, which improves performance per dollar.
Xe-HPG will support accelerated ray tracing, which is increasingly important as more people move to systems that support ray tracing.
In addition to announcing Xe-HPG, Intel announced that its first Xe-based discrete GPU, which is code-named DG1, is currently in production. Intel states that it's on track to ship in 2020. Check out our top picks for best graphics card in the meantime.
