Intel shows graphics investment Xe – lacks hardware acceleration of ray tracing

The two manufacturers Nvidia and AMD have long dominated the market for graphics cards in the higher performance classes. But soon the semiconductor giant Intel will take a step into the market with the graphics card family Xe, which will scale from simpler and more energy-efficient circuits all the way up to the performance class and data center.

Prior to this, Intel’s Chinese division has published renderings of a graphics card from the family. Here you can see a lavish cooler with three fans, which gets a design language based on Intel’s iconic blue color. The housing, fans and the three Displayport outputs and the single HDMI port all have elements of blue.

The color theme is also found on the power supply, which consists of feeding through a double set of 8-pin PCI Express connectors. This allows for power consumption of up to 375 watts, which may indicate that the Xe family will be a power-hungry story. It is worth mentioning that this may be a lavish circuit board intended for overclocking.

Some further details are also revealed about the family’s characteristics, where the initial circuit is said to lack support for hardware acceleration of ray tracing. In accordance with previous information, the circuit is planned for release in 2020 and is based on Intel’s new manufacturing technology 10 nanometers. The following year, an updated variant built on 7 nanometers will be launched, this time with support for ray tracing.

Source: Weibo via Vortez

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