Intel’s Flagship Gaming GPU Will Reportedly Perform Just below NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 and Be Priced Very Aggressively

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Intel teased earlier this month that its new HPG “DG2” graphics cards, which leverage the company’s new Xe architecture, are “right around the corner.” According to new tidbits shared by leaker Moore’s Law Is Dead, blue team’s flagship gaming GPU—a model with 512 Execution Units, boost clock of over 2.2 GHz, and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory—is largely comparable to NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3070 Ti in raster performance and might even come close to the GeForce RTX 3080 based on select benchmarks. Featuring “competitive” ray tracing capabilities and a DLSS competitor dubbed “XeSS,” Moore’s sources suggest that Intel’s top Xe-based DG2 graphics cards will be priced “aggressively” with a potential cost of around $349 to $499...
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Man, do I want to believe... but the football's been pulled away too many times.
 
I'd give it a go after some realistic unbiased reviews.
 
It's all rumors until it happens, but now we are starting to talk.

I'm not one to root for Intel, but if they can bring more competition to the GPU space, more power to them.

Conventional wisdom is that for competition to actually benefit the consumer the way it is supposed to, a market needs 3-4 competitive players. We very well might be getting close to that for the first time since 3DFX became irrelevant almost 20 years ago.

Watch it only work on Intel platforms though. :p
 
Grimlakin said:
I don't buy it quite yet. Intel is notorious for Cherry picking benchmarks and putting in unrealistic conditions in order to make their product look the best.
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I tend to view any GPU gaming claims they make with suspicion, but at the same time, I've been gaming on their IGPs in laptops for over a decade myself. Not the best performance by any measure, but 1080p60 in less intense titles? Done it plenty.

Bigger point behind that though is that Intel's gotten their drivers stable enough to pull that off. They might have a hiccup or two scaling that capability up, but from my perspective, they do have a pretty solid foundation.

Brian_B said:
Man, do I want to believe... but the football's been pulled away too many times.
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Something worth repeating (not to you, of course), is that outside of gaming (and raw compute) Intel's GPUs put on a pretty admirable showing. Transcoding in particular has been a strong point. Even if they fall into the #3 spot for gaming, they're already an easy #2 for everything else. AMD typically switches architectures faster than software companies release support.
 
LazyGamer said:
AMD typically switches architectures faster than software companies release support.
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Just to be nit picky

I do think AMD does itself no favors when it comes to software support. But I don't think it's because they switch architectures - nVidia actually switches more than AMD has in the recent past. AMD was on various revisions of GCN for ... a really really long time. AMD had a golden opportunity where they had a run of a lot of GPUs that shared a lot in common ... staring with the 7000 series, all the way through the 300 series. Vega and Polaris also have had good showings, particularly Polaris, that was in both the last-gen consoles. And now RDNA looks to be setting itself up for another good run.

No, it isn't that AMD jumps architectures frequently. It's just that they don't push the support like they need to.
 
Brian_B said:
I do think AMD does itself no favors when it comes to software support. But I don't think it's because they switch architectures - nVidia actually switches more than AMD has in the recent past.
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It's more when it comes to their media support. Nvidia has support on release, Intel the same- AMD might not ever get it.

If I were to build something to better support 4k editing (which we're doing more of lately), I'd have an AMD CPU, almost certainly a Threadripper, on the way. But for GPU it's Nvidia or bust for that workload, unfortunately.

And I'd love to throw AMD some support here, they've just been all over the place with it.
 
SeymourGore said:
If Intel can manufacture these GPUs en masse, and with the current GPU market being the state it's in - this could be the perfect storm for Intel.
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You are entirely correct, but that’s a lot of “ifs” to bet the farm on.

~If~ it’s competitive performance-wise
~If~ it’s priced right
~If~ they can deliver software support AND gaming drivers (they have been good on the former, horrible on the later)
~If~ they can maintain inventory
~If~ they can do all of this before the rest of the industry turns around and unclogs
 
Right now I'd accept available and able to get at least 1070 ti performance for an appropriate price.
 
Well if the shortage lasts in to 2022 then they should do well.

I have no idea holw long we will keep seeing current prices and availability. Could be another 2 years?
 
Its great they have products on release but I'll believe the performance when I see it.
I also dont think they will match NVidias driver quality (not perfect but good enough for me).
I've been forced not to use AMD because of ongoing driver issues that made my PC life miserable, I'm not jumping onto Intels ship unless its good enough all round.
 
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