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

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!

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.

If they can release a midrange for 400-500 that takes on the 4070/5070 I'd actually buy it.

Great release imo, show's Nvidia and and that they need to put a bit of thought behind their stupid pricing of late, although saying that the EU pricing for the b580 is stupid as well

ReBar was certainly my thought as well but it seems we were all wrong. There is a CPU overhead across generations.

It doesn't make it a complete disaster but Steve's retesting with the 5600 could reveal some interesting quirks.

Think you're being a little harsh describing it as not functional. Certainly moves from a recommend to "it depends" product that might have it's issues with driver overhead on older CPUs addressed in future driver updates.

As for Intel scrapping the whole product, they could. And they could sell it to someone else who is prepared to run with it. Or someone will buy it just to kill it. In the end though if it's successful Intel will run with it, if it's not then it's all moot.

B570 are out in the wild. Very interesting to see how these perform even with the overhead on older CPUs.

Nice work from Steve here. A lot of food for thought. Very slightly slower at 1080p but faster at 1440p. The few comments Steve made about the driver overhead issue and came across a lot more confident that Intel can address it. For all our sakes, I certainly hope they do. I did see a few people claiming to have some background in the area state that it is addressable but I've no idea. We shall see.

B570 reviews dropping tomorrow. Oh, and the B580 is back in stock in various places if priced a little high for my liking. Intel as the underdog is getting weird.

Arc wasn't functional?

Someone tell that to my A770 16GB