Jesus Christ... Intel Iris Xe Max Graphics, what a mouthful.
Glad that DG2 is powered on, but that implies they're still a long way from shipping.
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Intel has confirmed in their earnings that DG1 is currently shipping to customer for revenue and that DG2 has powered on.
They also confirmed that Xe Max branding is for dGPU/DG1
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Glad that DG2 is powered on, but that implies they're still a long way from shipping.
Yeah, the X'es on the pictures kinda reminded me of "ATI Radeon X1900 XTX" With the exception of the latter being slightly easier to pronounce. What's up with intel's marketing department?Jesus Christ... Intel Iris Xe Max Graphics, what a mouthful.
Glad that DG2 is powered on, but that implies they're still a long way from shipping.
Previous reports mentioned that there could be 960 EU SKU, but Tom’s sources say that the top DG2 SKU only has 512 EUs with 4096 stream processors all packed in one big tile.
Yeah, the X'es on the pictures kinda reminded me of "ATI Radeon X1900 XTX" With the exception of the latter being slightly easier to pronounce. What's up with intel's marketing department?
They designed new logos that are kinda nice. How could they fail so hard with model naming? IMO the change with Nehalem to "Core iX" and shorter product names was a really good change. Why can't they do it again?
No big surprise given that the Intel test driver from last year confirmed 512 EUs.
Intel's Iris Xe Max GPU Barely Beats Nvidia's GeForce MX330 In Latest Benchmark
DG1 needs more juicewww.tomshardware.com
Not pretty for Iris Xe Max DG1. Still, can't wait for reviews when they trot out the 1030, RX550 & the spectacular failure "1030 DDR4" (I know, I know, but it had to be mentioned) to see how it fares.
But hey, at least it can use either LPDDR4x or GDDR6, that's something alright.
But in a surprising (and welcome) bit of transparency from Intel, the company admits that in some scenarios Tiger Lake’s iGPU may outperform Xe MAX, and as a result those games shouldn’t run on Xe MAX.
There will also be an OEM-only desktop card.
Intel’s DG1 GPU Coming to Discrete Desktop Cards Next Year; OEM-Only
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Though still in the early stages, a hereto unnamed third party has reached an agreement with Intel to produce DG1-based desktop cards. These cards, in turn, will be going into OEM desktop systems, and they are expected to appear early next year.
In addition to mobile, Intel is working with its partners to bring Xe-LP-based discrete graphics to value desktops in the first half of 2021.
What do people actually think happened here? Surely much more logical to double the iGPU or something.
Some weird internal politics? Road map confusion? Aiming at Ryzen OEM machines?!!?
I guess Tigerlake iGPU with LPDDR5 next year will beat DG1.
So, while the clamshell XPS 13 9310 goes for a more standard thermal design with two fans and a heatpipe in between over the CPU, the XPS 2-in-1 goes with two fans as well, but a larger vapor chamber in between them. There’s also a difference in how the airflow is designed for the two.
There is a quirk to note. According to Intel, some games might perform slightly worse on Intel Iris Xe Max graphics than on Intel Iris Xe. An Intel spokesperson said this is “typically due to latencies: Dual-rank versus single-rank, hybrid display copy, or traversing the PCIe bus.” The example given was DOTA 2, which was about 10 FPS slower on average with Iris Xe Max, though it did still exceed 70 FPS.
Interestingly, Intel revealed the Iris Xe Max may not necessarily render a PC game better than the integrated graphics on a Tiger Lake chip. It depends on the game.
“This is really because of preferences in games about how they like to access memory, or latencies across PCI Express buses,” said John Webb, Intel's director of client graphics marketing.
Hyper encoding compared to RTX 2080 NVENC:
But did the quality improved?
Last mount I finally tried encoding a movie to reduce the file size using handbreak on a skylake notebook I have here. I was surprised by how fast the work was done but unfortunately I got even more surprised by the poor the quality.
Just look at the driver if you don't believe me. I already linked data structure descriptions on Reddit. Download 100.8885, open iga64.dll, start at offset 0x22fab8 and subtract 0x180000c00 from every pointer. Shouldn't be that hard!This reddit post is complete nonsense, many many errors in it, forget it. Even the subslice count is wrong, this guy is clearly confused.