Sunday, June 27th 2021
Intel DG2 GPU with 256 Execution Units Offers GTX 1050 Performance
We have been receiving several leaks for Intel's upcoming DG2 GPUs with a 256 Execution Unit model recently appearing on Geekbench paired with a 14-core Alder Lake mobile CPU. The Alder Lake mobile processor featured an integrated Xe GPU with 96 Execution Units which were also benchmarked. The 256 Execution Unit graphics card tested is likely derived from the mid-range DG2-384 GPU. The 96 EU DG2 iGPU featured a maximum frequency of 1.2 GHz while the 256 EU variant increased that to 1.4 GHz. The DG2-256 scored an OpenCL score of 18,450 points in the Geekbench 5 benchmark which places it at GTX 1050 performance level. The DG2-96 integrated GPU scored 6,500 points which is comparable to a GTX 460. While these performance numbers are low it is important to keep in mind that these are just early results from a mid-range mobile offering and Intel is planning to release cards with 512 Execution Units which should compete with the RTX 3070 Ti and 6700 XT.
Sources:
Geekbench (DG2-256), Geekbench (DG2-96), VideoCardz
33 Comments on Intel DG2 GPU with 256 Execution Units Offers GTX 1050 Performance
This has half the EUs and is only performing at GTX 1050 levels, I don't see how doubling the EUs will more than double the performance.
Edit: I just looked it up, doubling the EUs would have to quadruple the performance if they expect it to match the 3070Ti. As the 3070Ti is 4 times faster than the 1050. I don't see that happening. I'm guessing DG2-512 will be lucky to get RTX 3060 performance.
Intel needs to start somewhere, but nothing exciting at this point in time. Especially so when this card is also limited to some Intel configurations which may further affect adoption rate.
That means DG2-512 could be as fast as 3070/6700XT in synthetic while limping along 3060 in actual games, or worse.
Just double the EUs to 512
Then juice up to 3.0GHz
3070Ti performance right there.
Please don't mind the under the table chiller, thx
We have seen this in their W-3175X "Demo" already.
Use a 1000W CPU with a chiller to fight competitor's 250W offerings
Rediculous claims that get people hyped: "6ghz out of the box, 10 cores for just 270 dollar and 50% ipc gains!!" and then when its "only" 4ghz for 8 cores at 350 dollars with 20% ipc gains, even though it would be historically a fantastic evolution, people will be disappointed because it does not match the rediculous hype.
And anti AMD fanboys will use this borderline self fufilling prophesy to talk crap about it "hehe so much for that 6ghz claim right? cant trust AMD guys, stick with Intel omegalulz".
Pretty sure Intel never said it would match the 6700xt or 3070(ti), that is just speculation from (probably amongst others) Morse's Law is Dead, so take that with a mountain of salt.
Sure a gpu that matches a 1050 is hardly something interesting for most of us, but if the big version can do RTX3060/RX5700xt performance for 260 bucks, that would be great.