Intel’s game-oriented Xe-HPG in six performance levels

Intel has several items on the agenda for the year 2021, where the “Rocket Lake” processors in the Core 11000 series will make their debut sometime in March. Like the mobile “Tiger Lake” family, the upcoming processor series offers integrated graphics according to the company’s Xe architecture, which in energy-efficient design has been rolled out for both desktops and laptops as a modestly dedicated graphics card.

In 2021, powerful Xe graphics with the code name DG2 and the Xe-HPG stamp await, with the suffix “High Performance Gaming”. The game-oriented products have several times been on the wallpaper rumor mill and from official sources, as confirmed ray tracingsupport, GDDR6 memory and external party manufacturing. Through Twitter user harukaze5719 information is now being decoded that points to DG2 becoming a product family in six different levels of performance.

The list includes reruns of configurations previously seen on the web, where the circuit for the variant with 384 calculation units (EU) was captured on image. The data on the number of calculation units are accompanied by the width of the associated memory buses and memory volumes, which stay at 4 GB on the three simplest models. With 96 and 128 EU, narrow memory buses of 64 bits also follow, while more familiar 128 and 192 bits apply with 192, 256 and 384 EU cards.

The top model with 512 EU is reportedly equipped with 8 or 16 GB graphics memory and a 256 bit wide bus, features that are in line with modern and high-performance cards from AMD and Nvidia. A similar memory configuration suggests that Intel’s first investment in hardware for game graphics can be measured even with slightly sharper donations from the two current giants, but the future will show if that really happens.

Source: harukaze5719 via Videocardz

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