At the end of last week, Intel’s Pete Brubaker said that “DG2 is just around the cornerIn a tweeted announcement for a new addition to Intel’s development team. The announcement is about a “senior game developer relations engineer” who will be able to help developers optimize their titles for new Intel hardware, a job expected to begin months before a new architecture is released. , which puts the Brubaker’s commentary in conflict with reality.
Intel: Either you launch the Xe DG2 graphics now or it will be too late
Igor Walloseek of Igor’s Lab claims that Intel is already in negotiations with ASUS and MSI at least, but also said that, according to reliable sources, Intel will start manufacturing the entry-level DG2 graphics chips in November or December, and high-end ones. in January or February 2022
The point is that right now there is a huge hole in the market: neither AMD nor NVIDIA have stock of your graphics cards and furthermore, no new launches are planned on the horizon, so it would be an unbeatable time for Intel to appear in the market with its dedicated GPUs, because even if its performance was lower than the competition, it is expected certainly to that they sell all the units that they could manufacture due to the high demand of GPUs and the low stock of these.
If in the end these predictions come true and Intel will not start manufacturing these Xe DG2 GPUs until the end of the year or the beginning of next year, their launch could be delayed at least until the summer. 2022, when it could already be too late for their products to be successful.
What can we expect from Intel’s dedicated graphics?
Intel has repeatedly confirmed that they are using models of 512, 384, 256, 196 and 128 UEs where each has similar performance to eight cores (shaders). There are two months left until the second anniversary of the leak that first revealed the 512, 256, and 128 UE configurations of the DG2, and then the 512 UE 1800 MHz model was supposed to reach the peaks. 14.7 TFLOP
As you know, Intel Xe is a completely new architecture whose performance cannot be easily predicted. However, unless it could hit absurdly high clock speeds, a GPU with 512 EU and mid-range GDDR6 memory couldn’t compete with the high-end from AMD or NVIDIA (as with the RTX 3090), which means Intel wouldn’t be competing. the high end of graphics cards but it could go into the medium-high, as long as it does not continue to delay the launch a lot because until summer 2022 as we mentioned before, it is potentially possible that both NVIDIA and AMD already have their next generation in the bedroom.
Intel therefore now has a unique opportunity to step in and shake up the GPU MarketplaceBut since you’re in no rush to take advantage of it, by the time your desktop GPUs hit the market, they’ll be left behind before they even get there.