Intel Xe DG1 graphics card 3DMark leak again suggests AMD and Nvidia won’t be troubled
But at least this rumor is more promising than the last leak we saw for DG1
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Intel’s Xe DG1 graphics cardhas been spotted in a 3DMark benchmark, or at least the rumor mill believes that result is forIntel’s first crack at a discrete GPU.
As ever, we shouldn’t read too much into this given that it is just speculation that this is DG1, although the source is a reliable one, the ever-present TUM_APISAK. But even if the leak is on the money, remember that this is an early sample GPU, and won’t reflect the exact performance Intel may achieve with the final product.
DG1 pic.twitter.com/tR0cFnM1u5May 30, 2020
At any rate, the purported DG1 graphics cards scored 5,538 in 3DMark’s Fire Strike test (paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K processor) and hit a graphics score of 5,960.
That’s not a massively impressive result, but as we’ve already mentioned, it must be treated with caution. It’s in the ballpark of a graphics card as old as the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, albeit a bit faster than that veteran GPU (which scored 5,402 for graphics in a 3DMark result highlighted on Twitter).
AsWccftech, which spotted this, observes, it’s a fair way behind the GTX 1050 to pick out another example fromNvidia’s line-up – that previous-gen budget card is around 500 points to 800 points better than the DG1 depending on which 3DMark result you look at.
No cause for concern?
Anyhow, you get the idea – and as with a previous Geekbench result, which showed that theDG1 wasn’t much better than Nvidia’s low-end MX250, the overall vibe thus far is that Intel’s initial product is not going to be causing eitherAMDor Nvidia any sleepless nights.
That said, at least this new 3DMark leak shows the Intel GPU comfortably outdoing the likes of the MX350, by around a third in terms of that graphics score in fact.
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Further remember that Intel’s first GPU is likely to be atesting the watersaffair, and as we’ve previously heard via the rumor mill, it’s going to be a mobile part – in other words, a graphics card for laptops, not a GPU for a desktop PC. With further development, perhaps it could start to worry Intel’s rivals at least in the notebook arena – particularly when combined with the potential ofXe integrated graphics with Intel’s Tiger Lake mobile processors.
Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).
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