Pictures of Intel’s high-end discrete gaming graphics card, the Intel Xe-HPG DG2 have leaked out online along with detailed specifications of the graphics card. Specifications have been leaked by a leaker known as Moore’s Law is Dead.
The leaker has not only posted the first pictures of the engineering board but also detailed the specifications of the discrete GPU. The Xe HPG DG2 GPUs are based on the Gen 12 graphics architecture which a brand-new design.
The discrete GPUs will support full ray tracing as well as other AI-based capabilities such as Intel’s own DLSS competitor which is internally being referred to as XeSS (Xe Super Sampling). The pictures posted by the leaker are of a very early engineering sample and it is not the final design of the card.
Image Credits: Moore’s Law is Dead
In the leaked images, we can see the card running a dual-slot form factor with dual-fan cooling, a large aluminum fin heatsink, and the Intel logo plastered over a small acrylic panel. The green-colored PCB and the cheap plastic shroud look to be of an engineering sample and will be changed in the final version of the card.
The card features an 8+6 pin connector configuration and the leaker states that the expected TDP of the Intel Xe-HPG DG2 gaming discrete graphics card is expected to be up to 275W. Three DG2 SKUs have been spotted on the Intel website which includes 512 EU, 384 EU, and 128 EU chips. Each SKU will feature multiple variants with different configurations.
Coming to the Intel Xe-HPG DG2 512 EU GPU SKU, it has just one configuration listed for now. It utilizes the full die with 4096 cores, has a 256-bit bus interface, and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. The Xe-HPG DG2 512 EU chip is suggested to feature clocks of up to 2.2 GHz.
Performance targets are also mentioned and the flagship Xe-HPG DG2 discrete graphics card is hinted to be as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 which should put it close to the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT as well.
The Intel DG2 GPUs will be coming to both desktop and mobility designs later this year and are rumored to be based on an external foundry process node, most probably TSMC and its 6nm (N6) node. We will have to wait and see how these cards perform against NVIDIA and AMD’s offerings.
