Wednesday, May 19th 2021
Intel Iris Xe First Discrete GPU (DG1) Goes on Sale with CyberPowerPC Gaming System
The discrete GPU market has been a duopoly for quite some time, and when Intel announced that the company is rebooting plans for its discrete GPU lineup, another player was about to break that duopoly. Today, that has been changed forever and Intel has officially become the third manufacturer of discrete GPUs, as we can see on the online listing. On BestBuy, CyberPowerPC has listed "Gamer Xtreme Gaming Desktop" powered exclusively by Intel components. When it comes to the CPU choice, Intel's 6C/12T Core i5-11400F CPU model is present without iGPU. Now comes the interesting part. The GPU powering the system is Intel Iris Xe discrete graphics card, which is a DG1 GPU based on Xe-LP SKU.
This model features 80 EUs, resulting in 640 shading units. While this is not any gaming beast, casual 1080p gaming should be just fine on this configuration. The system is listed for 750 US Dollars, and it is sold out, as of the time of writing this. While the performance of this configuration may not be something monumental, it is an important step towards Intel's inclusion in the discrete GPU market. By using OEMs, the GPU will reach a very large market without any major problems. We are waiting to see the first reviews of the system, which will surely take a good look at the card and examine its performance.
Sources:
BestBuy, via VideoCardz
This model features 80 EUs, resulting in 640 shading units. While this is not any gaming beast, casual 1080p gaming should be just fine on this configuration. The system is listed for 750 US Dollars, and it is sold out, as of the time of writing this. While the performance of this configuration may not be something monumental, it is an important step towards Intel's inclusion in the discrete GPU market. By using OEMs, the GPU will reach a very large market without any major problems. We are waiting to see the first reviews of the system, which will surely take a good look at the card and examine its performance.
23 Comments on Intel Iris Xe First Discrete GPU (DG1) Goes on Sale with CyberPowerPC Gaming System
I want one of these so bad.
And if you care about a review...then why have you made up your mind already about wanting it?
The performance would be academic. I'm simply curious.
Nobody's expecting the DG1 to be a beast, as it's just Intels' Tiger Lake i5 IGP with the benefit of a bigger TDP and dedicated VRAM. Maybe it'll be a 1080p60 esports card which is absolutely fine, if unexciting. My real issue is that the world has been waiting 23 years for Intel to get back in the dGPU game and become a third competitor to AMD and Nvidia. This sneak launch is underwhelming and disappointing AF :\DG2 was supposed to be a GTX1060 competitor back when Intel were demoing it in early 2020. This DG1 is really just a laptop IGP put onto a seperate board. It even uses laptop LPDDR4X rather than GDDR VRAM, and early leaks say it's only a 30W part on 10nm which confirms its an unused Xe Max chip originally destined for laptops.
Think RX550, but with flaky early-stage drivers because Intel still has a lot of kinks to work out with Xe.
If past performance is any indicator, it will be a colossal "BUST", as the clowns they have working there can barely walk & talk at the same time, let alone know shit about computers, or anything else for that matter...
to wit:
My son went there last week to buy a lappy, against my warnings, and said he asked the salesgirl about what GPU was in the machine, she replied with "a really good 8 core one" so she obviously had no clue whatsoever, and neither did her little tweenie-bot flam-boi (with purple hair & green finger nails) helper that she called over to go see if they had the unit in stock or not...which of course took him 20 minutes, and he came back without a definitive answer....
Then to top it all off, he offered to sell the display unit to my son for a mere $40 discount (OH HELL NO !) and then.......
O>M>G>
twitty-girl literally had a hissy fit and started screaming at him about how they could not sell the displays under any circumstances and started shooing him away...
what a cluster :) I wish my son had recorded the whole event so I could die from laughter after watching it :)
Waiting for someone to claim miners bought them all... :shadedshu:
:D
I'll second this. Please do!
I had the wink one to imply a joke.
I think when and if more countries ban crypto that’s when things will change