INTEL’S FIRST GRAPHICS CARD
Basic, and original manufacturer only
AT LAST, we have Intel’s first discrete graphics card, the Iris Xe, carrying the DG1 GPU. Well almost. Intel has announced its partnership with “two ecosystem partners, including ASUS,” to bring its desktop GPU to specific pre-built systems (the other partner is Colorful, it’s no secret). The technical specifications lists 80 execution units, a maximum clock of 1,500MHz, a memory bandwidth of 68GB/s over a 128-bit bus, and a maximum resolution of 7,680 x 4,320 over DisplayPort. Support includes DirectX 12.1, Vulcan, OpenGL 4.6, H.264, and H.265 hardware encode/decode.