Intel website reveals details of upcoming Xe-HPG gaming graphics cards

Intel has published documents about its upcoming DG2 graphics cards, which are based on the Xe-HPG architecture. These are only available to manufacturers, but the document descriptions reveal various details about the GPUs.

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For example, this documentation is intended for OEMs and laptop manufacturers, who will design products with the video cards. Normally, these documents are only available to such system creators, but the descriptions of the documents were temporarily visible to regular visitors, Twitter users noticed. momomo_us and Komachi_Ensaka on. The descriptions are no longer visible to all visitors to the Intel website.

The documents show that Intel comes with at least five different DG2 laptop video cards, VideoCardz also writes. These laptop variants are labeled ‘SKU1’ through ‘SKU5’. The laptop video cards will be available with a maximum of 512 execution units, which corresponds to previous rumors. Variants with 384, 256, 128 and 96 of such eus are also mentioned.

Listings on the Intel website further confirm that the GPUs will receive support for GDDR6 memory with speeds from 14 gigatransfers per second to 18GT/s. The different laptop models are available with 4GB to 16GB of video memory. The highest positioned DG2 laptop model, with 512 eu’s, will get a total graphics power of 150W, according to the website. That’s equivalent to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 video card for laptops.

Furthermore, a separate DG2 graphics card for desktops is specifically mentioned, which would be available as a PCIe plug-in card. No specifications of this model have been mentioned yet, but that model is also expected to receive 512 eu’s. Intel already released a separate Xe video card with DG1 GPU earlier this year. However, that current video card only worked in combination with certain Intel processors, and was only available in pre-built PCs from OEMs.

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