Intel might have more Arc Xe GPUs on the way to rival Nvidia RTX graphics cards
Intel's returning to the graphics card fold with plans for a Xe DG2 GPU that could rival Nvidia’s RTX 3070, but it looks like the lineup might be even more robust than we first anticipated. A new open-source driver update suggests that there's another cut-down version of the SKU that aims to rival Nvidia and AMD, featuring 448 execution units instead of 512.
Spotted by Coelcanth’s Dream, the new Alchemist SKU was used for testing as part of a Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan driver update. In the patch notes, Intel developer Franciso Jerez claims that the update improves the performance of DG2 graphic solutions when dealing with "non-trivial workloads".
While Jerez's post doesn't include power consumption details, the pixel pipeline optimisation data included with the patch claims the driver boosts the DG2-448's performance with a 20-40% improvement. Jerez's data also features various games used for testing, like Shadow of Mordor, Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
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