LordOfChaos
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It was also this system that Intel used to show off that, yes, the DG1 dev card works as well. In this case it was running Warframe at 1080p, though Intel was not disclosing FPS numbers or what settings were used. Going by the naked eye alone, it’s clear that the card was struggling at times to maintain a smooth framerate, but as this is early hardware on early software, it’s clearly not in a state where Intel is even focusing on performance.
Overall, Intel has been embarking on an extended, trickle-feed media campaign for the Xe GPU family, and this week’s DG1 public showcase is the latest in that Odyssey campaign. So expect to see Intel continuing these efforts over the coming months, as Intel gradually prepares Tiger Lake and DG1 for their respective launches.
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1) Looks like a low power boi as speculated, entirely bus powered, small heatsink, so under 75W. Not a performance champ here.
2) 512 EUs, so at 8 ALUs per EU that's 4096 unified shaders, then if you want to do the old scully from there to get a ballpark idea of it from there, Gflops are a paper calculation of shaders * 2 ops per core per cycle * clock speed, so a 1GHz part would be 8Tflops, etc, noting as always that flops don’t compare performance across architectures.
3) You can't buy this, DG1 is pretty much the same config as the laptop Tiger Lake IGP part, so it's more of a development part so people can start to work on it without buying a new Tiger lake system.
Impressive, not really, but we're seeing more and more of the third major entrant into the dedicated GPU space. Do remember this is the Low Power (LP) silicon too
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