Intel Reportedly Launching Its First Discrete Graphics Cards for Gaming at CES 2022

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AMD and NVIDIA’s GeForce and Radeon products could finally be facing some real competition beginning early next year. According to new rumors stemming from China’s Weibo forums, Intel will launch its first discrete graphics cards based on its gaming-optimized Xe-HPG architecture during the next Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is scheduled to take place January 5–8, 2022. All of these graphics cards will leverage Intel’s new DG2 GPU configurations, the most powerful of which is believed to feature 512 Execution Units, 4,096 Cores, 16 or 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit memory bus, and a TGP of around 275 watts. Intel previously confirmed that Xe-HPG would have accelerated ray tracing support...

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