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.
66 Comments on Intel Puts Out More Official-looking Renders of the Xe Graphics Card
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.
Or maybe,
See what I'm saying? Color scheme matters..
It looks like something lego movie people might fight over, but... not humans.
Great movie... even for adults...
"First Try!"
Either this thing will be a high-performance monster, or woefully inefficient like an overclocked, overvolted RX VEGA.
You want an efficient, quiet, well-behaved Vega? You need to reduced the voltage and clocks yourself :)
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.