During the Architecture Day 2018, Intel revealed that its new discrete graphics cards will be codenamed Xe (or Xe if you prefer). Now do note that this is the name of the architecture and not how the GPUs will be named for the market (pretty much like what Turing is to NVIDIA’s RTX graphics cards).
The first GPUs will be coming out in 2020 and will cover all ranges; from integrated and data center cards to the highly anticipated consumer products.
Intel has also shared the following slides for its new architecture.
As said, the first GPUs will come out in 2020 so it’s still very early. Intel has not revealed any additional details, though we expect to hear more about these new graphics cards in 2019.
Stay tuned for more!
Kudos to our reader Metal Messiah for bringing this to our attention and thanks Anandtech!
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They can call it whatever they want, all we really care about is performance and pricing.
I’m hoping for some great gaming GPUs from Intel in 2020. It’s probably our best chance at some serious competition for Nvidia and Nvidia really needs it although AMD could bring something next year with 7nm Navi.
Did you just assume my video card’s gender?
First of all, no, these things always get delayed. Secondly, I’ll believe it when I see it. How close did Intel think they were to release with Larabee?
hopefully they got the right mindset this time around. for sure we can’t expect intel to compete in all metric competitively but if they got the right might set they will release the actual thing to the market first and will improve over time. they kill Larrabee because Larrabee really turn out to be an actual GPU instead of x86 core that can do (and might end up being superior) graphic related task. if they can pass this then come the second even harder challenge to overcome: how they want to convince gamer to actually buy their gaming GPU versus Geforce/Radeon. if they can endure to take a huge money loss in promoting and making their GPU actually run better Geforce/Radeon for several years then they might succeed.
They will have a third challenge as well. Not only will they need to have proper drivers right away but they will have to be committed to updating the drivers as time goes by. The best GPUs in the world aren’t worth very much if the drivers are inferior and people are going to be reluctant to buy a GPU from Intel if they don’t trust them to maintain their drivers properly into the future.
That’s what tanked AMD GPU sales to an 18% market share a few years ago. It seemed AMD might go bankrupt at that time which would mean no driver support for AMD GPUs that were for sale at that time in the future.
I’m hoping for the best but worst case scenario and Intel fails then really we haven’t lost anything because all we have right now is Nvidia and AMD. I see a chance that Intel can pull this off as only an upside with no downside from where we are right now anyway.
I am going to upgrade gtx 970 to RTX 3070 or 3080 when they release in 2019 but if they also cant do 1440p max settings 60 fps with ray tracing or even 8k max settings without ray tracing it will be a waste of money. What should ido? By the next high end nvidia card or wait for intel to se if they give us 8k max settings at a good price? Since GTX 970 still runs 1440p max settings 30+ fps in all games iam not in hurry to upgrade anyway!
I can only make wild guesses at this point about what a RTX 3080 (not ti) will be capable of but with the RTX 2080 (not Ti) being released in Sept 2018 and allowing for a 2 year cycle before next generation that would place the RTX 3080 (not Ti) in the middle of 2020 sometime and Intel has been saying for a while that is their planned launch date for their GPUs.
AMD should have their RX line out next year. So you will be able to pick from the 3 GPU companies as to what offers you the best performance for the money you want to spend.
Right now a 2080 is a good bit over twice as fast as a 970 in games right now. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a RTX 3080 being 3.5 times faster than your 970. Possibly even a little more than that so it would be a huge performance leap for you.
Do you have an 8K screen?
No. I am waiting until they release graphics cards that can do it and until prices drop because now only two RTX 2080 TI’s and 8k monitors are 3000+ euros . When their prices drop to 500 euros and they release graphics cards that can run max settings 8k then yes i will upgrade.
I’m not a big fan of Intel, but anything that brings competition to the GPU market is great at this point. Hopefully they deliver, committing to FreeSync is a good start at least.
The first genderless GPU.
You’re always funny.
Just hire metalmessiah already!
Metalmessiah, comment please yours are the best.
It will be nice to have more competition in the gpu market.
sadly we only say this when the duopoly or even monopoly take place. there are several discrete GPU maker back in the 90s and early 2000s. for a while we might get a third company for GPU. so who will be the next sacrifice and lead us to duopoly once again?
imo we will have 3 GPU companies for the foreseeable future. I seriously doubt that Intel could outbid AMD with the console manufacturers because they like large profit margins. I think AMD will provide the APU for the next gen consoles and assuming they come in 2020 and their life cycle is 3 to 4 years then AMD should be in the game for a while and probably working on the APU for the generation after the next gen. If they are in that far then they might as well use the R&D to continue in the discrete GPU market.
In any case all of us are tied to AMD even if some would never buy an AMD GPU because most of our games are ports from consoles. If the next gen consoles can’t handle real time ray tracing then I doubt we will see it take off very much.
AMD didn’t do so bad with Vega and the entry level GPUs last generation except that they used more power. They offered competition for everything Nvidia offered except the 1080 Ti. Very few buy a 1080 Ti class GPU. Most of the market is entry level and mid range.
I don’t see why they couldn’t do the same with Navi against Turing next year.
“I seriously doubt that Intel could outbid AMD with the console manufacturers because they like large profit margins.”
for intel if they really are determined about it then they willing to sacrifice their profit. just look at their mobile venture. how much money they have burn on it? they even try to hide the loss they took by merging the mobile revenue reporting with pc related product. if not for AMD rise with Ryzen intel would still be wasting money try to beat ARM in mobile. though i believe intel in general still have no interest to serve the console market. intel primary reason to enter discrete GPU market is to stop nvidia advance in professional computing solution. because they know those teslas did not really fund their “compute” R&D. what really fund nvidia GPU compute development was the money they get from selling gaming based GPU. that’s why for immediate temporary solution they were wiling to buy AMD Vega before they can really coming out with their true solution in 2020 time frame. they need to do all they can to halt nvidia advancement ASAP because intel know nvidia will not going to sit still on the same performance level even if there is no one left can challenge them at the top spot.
No way investors allow for that to happen again. Their mobile venture was a complete disaster.
we also need IMG, ARM and Qualcomm start selling discrete GPU for PC market. and actually buy their solution even if they were twice as expensive and yet twice as slow (plus having compatibility issue in majority of games) than what nvidia and AMD have.
?hese are not PC companies they dont make pc components so it will never happen. Took long enough for intel to do it. Now gpu prices will drop a lot because we will have 3 companies compete. Let see how long until nvidia starts makes cpus too.
but they still got GPU IP of their own. no dice for IMG but Qualcomm for sure have the money to pull it off. but the one problem with Qualcomm is they only care about winning the benchmark score and did not care about the rest. meaning they have no interest to invest heavily on the software side. it is typical mindset for majority of hardware maker.
for intel if they want to keep up with AMD/nvidia they really need to work more on their software (driver) and increase the effort for devrel. no longer they can say “i’m too busy to do this” when game developer actually approach them about the bug in their software. though intel can really disrupt the GPU market with pricing. even if they were using contra revenue strategy they will not get into trouble since they are not the top player in discrete GPU market. if they did this the one that probably at the most disadvantage will be AMD.
nvidia already making their own CPU since 2008 or so. just not for the PC market. nvidia have direct x86 access probably much worst nightmare for intel than AMD Ryzen.