There is no doubt that Intel wants to enter the dedicated graphics card market for all that is big and that is that its history is full of corpses where being third can leave you completely out. After the failure of the Intel i740 in the late 90s and the repositioning of Intel Larrabee ten years ago as the defunct Xeon Phi computer cards, Intel’s bet in several segments is the Intel Xe.
448 compute units for the Intel Xe-HPG X1 GPU?
RX 6700 XT 100%
RTX 3070 97%
448EU @ 1.8 GHz 92% ⬅️————————————-
128EU @ 1.9 GHz 100% ⬅️
GTX 1650 88% pic.twitter.com/giPGE8JtBJ-APISAK (@TUM_APISAK) June 18, 2021
Thanks to the Twitter account of the TUM_APISAK hardware information filter, we were able to find new information on the Intel Xe-HPG X1, and it is that according to a benchmark, we are going to have an Xe-HPG of 448 computing units, which is a benchmark error when counting the number of ALUs that Intel GPUs have. Something the TUM_APISAK itself corrects by referring to 448 EU.
To better understand this, it must be taken into account that the minimum processing unit of Intel GPUs is the Execution Unit or EU, which are unified with several in what Intel calls a Sub-Slice.
Well, a Sub-Slice is the equivalent of what at NVIDIA we call SM and in AMD Compute Unit, the three concepts being interchangeable and having the same meaning at the hardware level. In other words, they are complete cores of their respective GPUs.
Until now, we did not know the 448 EU model from the Intel Xe-HPG, because in the leaked databases we had seen the models with 512 EU and 384 EU, so we are faced with a new addition to the future family of GPUs for Intel Xe-HPG games.
Intel is competitive against NVIDIA and AMD
But according to the information leaked by APISAK, what really interests us is the fact that Intel has done its homework. Since its Intel Xe-HPG appears as a serious competitor in the market for gaming graphics cards. The reason is that with a configuration of 448 EU it reaches 92% of the performance of an AMD RX 6700 XTAlthough we do not know the benchmark on which such a comparison was made, it is assumed that the variation will not be very high, it should also be taken into account that the Intel GPU does not have the final drivers.
In the results, the Intel Xe-HPG X1 with 448 EU does not surpass its equivalents of NVIDIA RTX 30 and AMD RX 6000, but it manages to match them and becomes a player to be considered for the future of graphics cards for games with your Intel Xe-HPG.
Note also that the 128 EUs version of the Intel Xe-HPG, since the GTX 1650 only achieves 88% of its performance. In any case, we must not forget that the RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti, which will replace the already obsolete GTX 16s, are fast approaching. In any case, it’s a giant leap in terms of performance compared to the Intel Xe-DG1 used in the Intel Iris Xe as the Intel Xe-DG2’s input GPU.
