Intel ARC GPUs, Xe Architecture for dGPUs [2018-2022]

[Kaotik]

AMD still makes CPUs without an integrated GPU.

Not for long on mainstream platforms though, starting with AM5 everything comes with basic iGPU. Dunno about HEDT though, it might go without iGPU in future too.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Not for long on mainstream platforms though, starting with AM5 everything comes with basic iGPU. Dunno about HEDT though, it might go without iGPU in future too.

Which is great, but I'll still be using the 1600x and 3700x for quite a long time as they are perfectly capable CPUs. The i5 2500k is likely to be retired soon with the 1600x replacing it. Which still leaves me with the need for a low power discrete GPU that is passively cooled that has modern media hardware acceleration. Obviously pretty niche, I know, but I'm only talking about my personal requirements for some of the GPUs that I'll be buying over the next few years.

Regards,
SB

 

[DegustatoR]

Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast to feature Alder Lake and DG2 GPUs with DisplayPort 2.0 support

Looks like DG2 will be the first GPU to support DP 2.0.
Not surprising really considering that DP 2.0 is built on top of USB4 which itself is built on top of Intel's TB3.

 

[DegustatoR]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1427257332887588868

 

[DegustatoR]

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16886/intel-video-cards-get-a-brand-name-arc-coming-q1-2022

 

[CarstenS]

A, B, C, D... 10 points for creativity.

Yet unnanounced: Exorcist?

 

[Kaotik]

Biggest surprise was that DG2 is in fact 2 different chips apparently

 

[Bondrewd]

Biggest surprise was that DG2 is in fact 2 different chips apparently

?
It's been a known thing for eons now.
They're named DG2-512 and DG2-128 respectively.

 

[Kaotik]

?
It's been a known thing for eons now.
They're named DG2-512 and DG2-128 respectively.

Somewhere along the way I got the impression all were chops of the same chip

 

[DegustatoR]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1427272784791564289

 

[Bondrewd]

Somewhere along the way I got the impression all were chops of the same chip

Cuz 384/256EU parts are indeed chops of the big boye which makes it all the more murky.

 

[Deleted member 13524]

I too thought there was only one DG2, though I guess having the 128 EU chip with only 25% of the execution units enabled would be really odd.

Who is the 128 EU part for, then? Is it a replacement of DG1 to keep company to older CPUs?

 

[Bondrewd]

Is it a replacement of DG1 to keep company to older CPUs?

MX comp really.

 

[trinibwoy]

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16886/intel-video-cards-get-a-brand-name-arc-coming-q1-2022

Good to see Ryan is still alive though it seems Anandtech videocard reviews are dead and buried.

 

[trinibwoy]

A, B, C, D... 10 points for creativity.

Yet unnanounced: Exorcist?

Arc isn’t half bad as a consumer brand either. Certainly no worse than GeForce or Radeon.

 

[BRiT]

Hopefully Intel ARC performs far better than HDMI ARC or HDMI eARC. The latter are totes train wrecks.

 

[Krteq]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1405709858402226182

 

[Bondrewd]

Arc isn’t half bad as a consumer brand either.

Main issue is Intel also having an Ark.

 

[Jawed]

I think "Arc" falls into the snappy but easy to miss, trap. Geforce and Radeon both act as phoneme-sequences that are never normally encountered, so they "stick out" as earworrms.

The wait for the Fiery Phoenix each episode was almost unbearable.

Then there was this:

No idea if anything like that got to the US.

 

[pharma]

August 16, 2021

We're excited to share a first look at gameplay captured on #IntelArc Pre-production Silicon! Featuring gameplay from: Mount & Blade II Bannerlord, Forza Horizon 4, Psychonauts 2, Player Unknown Battlegrounds, Subnautica Below Zero, Metro Exodus, Rift Breaker, Days Gone, Chivalry II, Crysis Remastered Trilogy.