Perhaps most notable, an undeniable fact, that the presentation is more than one year old. That said, Intel already had plans to put this GPU on the market for high performance from before 2019 and may have been in the oven for some of the aforementioned card ESs.
Intel takes over the NVIDIA and AMD throne attacks
Intel's investment in the GPU is astronomical, but given the risks faced by its future competitors in the market and the time when they launch their development, we can certainly talk about the industry's momentum when it finally meets the industry's expected performance / expectations.
Intel Xe it will be based on what we saw then in architecture Arctic sound and we'll have the clarity, in theory, of being the first to treat a series of chiplets as modules or mosaics (Tile, this is what the company calls them).
All Tiles will obviously come with it 128 EU, as road map and subdivision are parts of the Swan envisage a unique and inclusive construction that will be segmented according to their needs, markets and operations. To do this they will use a multi-matrix system as a 3D rendering Foveros, similar movements in the sense, at least, of what AMD and Zen did.
Therefore, the strength of each graphics card will be transferred to the Tile, as if for chiplets or cores, it is important to understand the following table.
Three types, up to 4 Tiles, 48 volts and 500 watts of TDP
Although Intel is not listed on the table that the EU will have models in, we are aware of its statement that it plans to launch various models: 128, 256 and 512 EU respectively.
At the same time and as Intel points out, each one GPU Gen 11 (Xe Arctic Sound) It has an internal division of 8 pieces with 8 EU to make a total of 64, so for a complete figure it means that in 128 type EU you need 1 Tile with 2 Slides, in 256 EU type 2 Tiles with 4 Slides and in 512 version EU we can have 4 Tiles with 8 Slides compatible.
Consumption / power starts from 75 watts of TDP speculated DG1 model we saw in the company's hands, up to 500 watts of HPC servers.
In between and obviously, there will be a 150 watt model that will compete with the RX 5600 XT and RTX 2060 and later it will be offered a 300 watt model to compete against the end of both companies.
Intel GPU: HBM2E memory and PCIe 4.0 support
Another surprise is the verification of memory usage HBM2E and PCIe 4.0 and the entire range of cards, which is in line with the announcement of Samsung and SK Hynix's launch of this VRAM edition this year.
The use of Foveros technology is also important to handle this type of VRAM as it has been CoWoS on TSMC / AMD to give life to GPUs such as Radeon VII.
When can we know more of the official details? Rumors focus on Computex 2020, because it's clear that Intel won't make any leaks and will want to keep more claims until the last minute.
What seems clear is that it will be a very strong competition for AMD and NVIDIA, maybe not immediately, but only Gen 11 is the first step because next year Gen 12 will come with significant development.
