The Die size of Intel’s Xe HPG DG2-512 GPU has been measured and posted on Twitter by Locuza and according to those measurements, the Intel Xe-HPG DG2-512 GPU die is bigger than both the AMD Navi 22 GPU and NVIDIA GA104’s GPU die. The die shot was posted by Intel’s Chief Architect of graphics Raja Koduri in a tweet yesterday.
According to the measurements by Locuza, the Intel DG2-512 GPU measures about 396mm2. It makes it bigger than both the AMD RDNA 2 and NVIDIA Ampere offerings. The Xe-HPG architecture-based chip might be the flagship but in terms of performance, it should be competing against the RTX 3080 and Radeon RX 6800 XT.
The DG2-512 GPU die is not as big as the flagship GPU offerings from NVIDIA and AMD. But if we are to compare the high-end GPU category (Navi 22 / GA104), the DG2-512 has a slightly bigger die than the other two.
The DG2-512 GPU has a BGA-2660 package which measures 37.5mm x 43mm. In comparison, NVIDIA’s Ampere GA104 measures 392mm2 which means that the DG2 chip is comparable in size while the Navi 22 GPU measures 336mm2 or around 60mm2 less.
NVIDIA’s GPUs pack tensor cores and much bigger RT/FP32 cores in their chips while AMD RDNA 2 chips pack a single ray accelerator unit per CU and Infinity Cache. Intel is expected to have hardware-accelerated ray-tracing capabilities onboard its Xe-HPG GPUs as well.
DG2-512 die is about 396mm² large.
DG2-512: 4096 FP32 Units, 256-Bit GDDR6
Navi21: 5120 FP32 Units, 256-Bit GDDR6 + 128MiB L3$
Navi22: 2560 FP32 Units, 192-Bit GDDR6 + 96MiB L3$GA104: 6144 FP32 Units, 256-Bit GDDR6
Sources:https://t.co/TEOHLoibzIhttps://t.co/C6CBTKrnOL https://t.co/1Od8cczZ4t pic.twitter.com/ruKGIbrBLL
— Locuza (@Locuza_) June 2, 2021
Earlier, a Geekbench benchmark for the Intel Xe-HPG DG2-512 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.
