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Monday, July 1st 2019

Intel Puts Out More Official-looking Renders of the Xe Graphics Card

Intel China through its Weibo (Twitter-equivalent) handle put out more official-looking renders of its Xe graphics card. The Weibo post doesn't cite an author, leading us to speculate that the company's industrial design team is close to finalizing a product-design for at least the client-segment derivative of Xe. The swanky-looking card apparently has a stamped metal cooler shroud, a cooling solution that's based on a fin-stack heatsink that's ventilated by three fans, and quite some LED embellishment. An interesting design detail is the exponent symbol projected on the center fan. The power inputs are located at the tail end of the card, which is where most professional graphics cards have them; and consist of a pair of 8-pin PCIe inputs. Display inputs include three DisplayPorts, and an HDMI. The first Xe graphics card bound for 2020 will be built on Intel's 10 nm silicon fabrication process, which offers comparable transistor-densities to current 7 nm nodes.
Source: Vortez.net
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66 Comments on Intel Puts Out More Official-looking Renders of the Xe Graphics Card

#51
lexluthermiester
MelvisLooks like an 80s boom box
That's not a bad thing.
ValantarMore like a mid-to-late 2010s boom box, really.
Um, no.
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#52
Valantar
lexluthermiesterThat's not a bad thing.


Um, no.
You really think this

looks more like this

or this

than what I posted? I think you have an overblown idea of how prevalent colored LEDs and rounded edges were in 80s product design. As in: nonexistent.
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#53
lexluthermiester
ValantarYou really think this

looks more like this

or this

than what I posted? I think you have an overblown idea of how prevalent colored LEDs and rounded edges were in 80s product design. As in: nonexistent.
The silver one yes, but not the black one or the one you posted above. For example;

Or maybe,

See what I'm saying? Color scheme matters..
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#54
Mescalamba
LemmingOverlordJust for the heck of it... Show of hands: who *actually* believes Intel is close (i.e. next 18 months, within 2020 timeframe as they originally mentioned) to producing a viable graphics card which will be able to bring competition to the GPU market?
Its actually very possible. They got ppl and money for that. Question is how fast is possible to design something good from scratch. Probably not that fast.
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#55
Valantar
lexluthermiesterThe silver one yes, but not the black one or the one you posted above. For example;

Or maybe,

See what I'm saying? Color scheme matters..
Can't say I agree - you seem to be putting too much weight into the overall shapes and colors (roughly rectangular silver thing with circles towards each end) rather than the details of the design which IMO is what ultimately determines the design. The 80s boomboxes are dominated by straight lines and square angles (or close to it), simple shapes (relatively box-like), along with sharp contrasts and relatively flat colors. The Intel design is on the other hand dominated by rounded corners, complex, rounded 3D shapes and whatever the opposite of flat colors is. The contrasts are generally less harsh, with more gradations and overlap. I agree that color matters, but not more than the rest of the design. And yes, I am going way overboard with this analysis :p
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#56
Fluffmeister
Prima.VeraWhat's with the Internet Explorer logo on the middle fan?? :eek: :eek: :wtf::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
If you really zoom in it says RX 690.
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#57
lexluthermiester
Valantaryou seem to be putting too much weight into the overall shapes and colors (roughly rectangular silver thing with circles towards each end)
I'm fairly certain that's what Melvis was referring to, most definitely what I was referring to.
ValantarAnd yes, I am going way overboard with this analysis :p
No worries! It's all good. :toast:
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#58
R-T-B
If I saw that GPU, I'd run.

It looks like something lego movie people might fight over, but... not humans.
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#59
lexluthermiester
R-T-BIf I saw that GPU, I'd run.

It looks like something lego movie people might fight over, but... not humans.
Nice! LOL!
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#60
EarthDog
"We are from the planet Duplo. We are here to...destroy you".

Great movie... even for adults...


"First Try!"
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#61
Chrispy_
The only real information from this garish design is that the board has a 300-375W power envelope, based on the 2x8-pin of 150W each plus 75W from the PCIe slot.

Either this thing will be a high-performance monster, or woefully inefficient like an overclocked, overvolted RX VEGA.
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#62
lexluthermiester
Chrispy_The only real information from this garish design is that the board has a 300-375W power envelope, based on the 2x8-pin of 150W each plus 75W from the PCIe slot.
Logical conclusion.
Chrispy_Either this thing will be a high-performance monster, or woefully inefficient like an overclocked, overvolted RX VEGA.
I don't see that happening. Intel needs a win in the GPU arena. They are more likely to cancel the project than release a card that competes only with cards from 2017.
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#63
EarthDog
Chrispy_Either this thing will be a high-performance monster, or woefully inefficient like RX VEGA.
FTFY. :p
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#64
Chrispy_
EarthDogFTFY. :p
I was talking about the stock card - That's how they come from the factory with near-zero headroom.

You want an efficient, quiet, well-behaved Vega? You need to reduced the voltage and clocks yourself :)
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#65
Mescalamba
Chrispy_I was talking about the stock card - That's how they come from the factory with near-zero headroom.

You want an efficient, quiet, well-behaved Vega? You need to reduced the voltage and clocks yourself :)
Yea factory Vega is a mess. Mine was 1620 MHz at 1.2v, while heating up like mad even with ridiculously oversized cooling.

Then a bit magic of tweaking and voila, it runs at 1600 MHz [sometimes bit faster] at 1.05v. Completely unnecessary overvolting from stock.

Was like if I changed card, suddenly quiet cool and perfectly running.
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#66
plonk420
might be ballsy if Intel had the guts to send a PCB layout/photo to Buildzoid...
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