Intel unveils Xe architecture at GDC 2020

Intel has previously announced that 2020 will be the year when the company returns to the graphics card market, where AMD and Nvidia have acted undisturbed for many years. The company has not announced exactly when graphics cards in the Xe series will be available, but reports claim that Intel is aiming for a launch by the summer of 2020.

In terms of product development and marketing, six months is no longer a period, and Intel is therefore kicking off the marketing of Xe with a presentation during the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in March. The description of the presentation states that it goes into depth about the architecture that forms the basis for the graphics cards in the Xe series.

Intel’s brand new Xe Architecture has been teased for a while, and is scheduled for release later this year! This update brings a significant compute, geometry and throughput improvements over today’s widely used Gen9 and Gen11 graphics.

This talk will provide a detailed tour of the hardware architecture behind Intel’s upcoming GPUs – unveiling the structure behind its building blocks and their performance implications. Special consideration will be taken to explain how graphics engineers can best exploit the new Xe Architecture. We will then take an in-depth look at the powerful new features being introduced with this new architecture.

The technical deep dive in Xe will be the first of its kind. Intel has previously presented more comprehensive information about the architecture, and during CES 2020, the company also unveiled the reference card DG1 to be used by developers who want to learn about and optimize for the new architecture.

Game Developers Conference 2020 takes place March 16-20 in San Francisco.

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