The PCB images of the Intel Xe-HPG DG2 have leaked out online and these images follow up the leak of the engineering sample earlier in April. The Xe-HPG DG2 GPU-powered graphics card’s PCB pictures were leaked by Moore’s Law is Dead in a YouTube video. According to the new leaks, the Intel Xe-HPG DG2 has performance close to NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics card.
The leaked PCB pictures for the Intel Xe-HPG DG2 GPU-powered graphics card us a better idea of what to expect from Intel’s upcoming line of enthusiasts and gaming graphics cards. From the images, we can see that the graphics card PCB is that of an early engineering sample.
The PCB is colored green and there are 8 solder points for GDDR6 memory that confirm a 256-bit bus interface. Intel could go with either 8Gb or 16Gb DRAM dies for 8 GB & 16 GB VRAM capacities.
This PCB has different connectors and switches that will not appear on the retail variant. On the back of the PCB are solder joints for two 8-pin connectors and several polymer aluminum SP-Caps, 21 to be accurate. The back of the GPU has several MLCC-caps and filters.
The card does not have any multi-GPU connector though that could be due to it being an engineering board. It may also be that Intel could offer mGPU functionality over the PCIe Gen 4.0 lanes like AMD. There are certain areas blacked out which might have serial numbers and codes for the card which may have made it easier to track the leaker.
Earlier, a Geekbench benchmark for the Intel Xe-HPG DG2 GPU leaked out which gave a detailed idea of what specifications the Xe-HPG DG2 will have. The Intel Xe-HPG DG2 GPU spotted in the benchmark has 512 EU (Execution Units) which rounds up to 4096 cores. The Xe-HPG DG2 GPU was running at a clock speed of 1800 MHz (max) in the benchmark. We do not know what the final clock speeds will be for the GPU.
We will have to wait for more information to see how Intel’s HPG GPUs stack up against AMD and NVIDIA’s offerings.
