Intel Xe DG1 - Team Blue (re)enters the GPU market

Jon Doe

Intel Graphic's Achilles' heel has always been its drivers.. has that changed?

K.O.Kiki

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122512440#Comment_122512440

Watch the video instead of spamming the forums?

Jon Doe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513731#Comment_122513731

The video is heavily gamer-oriented, not developer-oriented… :(

K.O.Kiki

First Battlemage leaks

Arc B580:

• ~225W TDP
• 2 GHz core clock
• 12GB GDDR6
• PCIe 5.0 x8 interface

K.O.Kiki

Arc B580 listed at $259.55

(for comparison, the A750 launched at $289 & A580 at $179)

minitrue

There's a $250 12GB 20 Xe core B580 in 10 days and $220 10GB 18 Xe core B570 in January. Intel seem to be pitching the B580 against (generally better than) the 4060/7600 at 1440p Ultra, perhaps with raytracing being where it really wins along with the extra vram, will be interesting perhaps to see if that RT strength carries over into upscaling.

For the B580 Intel are saying it's actually 190W TBP (stock seemingly with room for vendors to reach 220W-ish on OC cards), 2670MHz typical clock, 12GB GDDR6 on 192bit bus but it's pci-express 4.0 x8 not 5.0! For anyone normal that pci-e generation difference is hardly likely to matter but I sighed as the 5.0 x8 rumour coupled with their media engine had me paying attention.

B570 is 150W and 2500MHz so we'll just have to see benchmarks and actual retail pricing but I'd guess for people who aren't focused on gaming but do need a real gpu for something it might have a place until anything cheaper appears!

K.O.Kiki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1fEpWy9B0c

GN preview

Also

That is a pretty GPU.

K.O.Kiki

Someone got an early B580 + driver

https://x.com/Crackiioli/status/1866945640472907815

3DMark Steel Nomad (Vulkan)

A'770: Avg. 2'609

B580: 3'222pts (3'382 @ 3.15GHz) a 24-29% uplift

K.O.Kiki

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-arc-b580/

Review embargo has been lifted.

Cordell

It is unfortunate that while being this good, better in most cases than a 4060, it's still in the performance bracket that requires upscaling to be able to enjoy raytracing, and too many games than fall into this category don't have support for XeSS upscaling and frame gen.

It looks like a winning architecture if it can scale up and if they push for more support in games.

K.O.Kiki

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122949340#Comment_122949340

It depends on the game, really.

But overall, this is a big win, now they just need to bring the European price below 300eur.