Intel’s upcoming flagship discrete gaming GPU, Intel Xe-HPG DG2 has been spotted on the Geekbench benchmark database. The benchmark provides us with detailed specifications of the upcoming Intel flagship GPU. The Intel HPG (High-Performance Graphics) lineup will include discrete gaming graphics cards and is slated to launch in the second half of 2021.
From the Geekbench benchmark, we now have a detailed idea of what specifications the Xe-HPG DG2 will have. The Intel Xe-HPG DG2 GPU spotted in the benchmark has 512 EU (Execution Units) which rounds up to 4096 cores. The Xe-HPG DG2 GPU was running at a clock speed of 1800 MHz (max) in the benchmark. We do not know what the final clock speeds will be for the GPU.
Coming to the VRAM, the benchmark shows the graphic card having 12.6 GB of VRAM. But most probably it is some type of mistake and we may see the card having 12 GB GDDR6 VRAM at launch. The Xe-HPG DG2 GPU also packs 4 MB of L2 cache as spotted within the log file at Geekbench.
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A surprising discovery from the benchmark is that the Intel Xe-HPG DG2 GPU was tested with a 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake-S Desktop CPU. The CPU used features 16 cores and 24 threads and has a base clock of 2.20 GHz which boosts up to 4.60 GHz. The featured Alder Lake CPU also has 30 MB of L3, 6 MB of L2 cache and was featured on the LGA 1700 socket. The test platform comprised of 32 GB DDR5 memory.
The OpenCL test result for the Intel Xe-HPG DG2 GPU is really bad and is far worse than even the GeForce 500 series graphics cards based on the Fermi architecture. This means that the card’s drivers are in the early development phase and as the release date of 2nd half of 2021 comes closer, we will surely see the same GPU performing like it is supposed to.
