Today, Intel has shown the first images of the Xe-HP graphics cards. Nvidia and AMD dominate the dedicated graphics segment, but as we have known for some time now, Intel is working on its new Xe architecture.
They have already debuted this new architecture in netbooks and now it is coming for data centers. Intel Xe-HP aims primarily for video game streaming and video transcoding.
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First images of Intel Xe-HP dedicated graphics
Raja Koduri, the head of this project, shared new images of these dedicated graphics on Twitter.
Exciting to see these next to each other. Intel's first data center GPU that's in production, between Xe HP GPUs that are sampling to customers. We have ways to go, but an incredible journey so far. 🙏 the incredible team at Intel🙏 2020 is a memorable year for GPU technology pic.twitter.com/2fsJvVeDOK
— Raja Koduri (@RajaXg) December 8, 2020
These graphics are made with a 10 nm process and have a traditional PCIe 3.0 x16 interface that resembles other dedicated graphics from NVIDIA or AMD and in the image, it appears next to the XG310 model.
The latter has four Iris Xe Max chips (previously known as DG1) that we have begun to see in some ultraportables, and in this case, these four graphics chips work concurrently in areas such as video transcoding for streaming video content and cloud gaming.
Iris Xe Max has a fanless design as we see in the image, we can say it is not a graphics card focusing on power. But once again this is an important step for Intel’s ambition to be able to compete with AMD and NVIDIA in the future.
