They compete with the RTX 4060 by promising a low price and new technologies.
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Just a day after the departure of CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel announced its long-awaited graphics cards. Battle Magesecond generation graphics processor under the Arc brand. Starting in September, we will see the new iGPU architecture in Lunar Lake laptop processors, but now it will finally appear on desktop computers.
Architecture
The main novelty is, of course, the kernels marked as Xe2. It introduces relatively significant architectural changes that mainly fix the problems of the first generation; in some tasks, the new chips are many times faster.
Source: Intel
Source: Intel
RT units have also been improved, for example they have twice the cache for BVH structures.
Overall Intel is promising 70% more performance per Xe core And 50% more power per watt.
In addition to performance, the new architecture provides support Decoding via VVC or H.266. Thus, Intel can become another innovator in this area: already with Alchemist it provided support for encoding via AV1 for the first time in history.
Models
And now to the graphics themselves, of which Intel presented two: B570 And B580Thus, the second of the mentioned flags will be a temporary flag until the possible B770 or B780 models, the existence of which is still not established, appear.
Essentially confirming all previous leaks, the B580 provides 20 Xe cores @ 2670 MHz, 12 GB GDDR6 video memory kit 192-bit bus and throughput 456 GB/smaximum consumption is set at 190 W. The card will stand US$249 and it will come out December 13.
The chopped B570 model has two fewer cores, i.e. 18slightly lower frequency in the form 2500 MHz, 10 GB GDDR6 video memory kit 160-bit bus and throughput 380 GB/sin this case, the flow rate should be maximum 150 W. The price is set at $219 and the card comes out January 16 next year.
Both models can cost one 8-pin connector and connection via 8 PCIe 4.0 lanes. At the same time he offers 3 DisplayPort 2.1 connectors a 1 HDMI 2.1.
In addition to the limited edition from Intel, they will also be available. options from partnersin particular by companies Acer, ASRock, Gunnir, Maxsun, Onix and Sparkle.
Performance
What about the performance itself? We will, of course, wait for independent tests, but for now we at least have Intel’s internal tests. According to them it should be B580 24% faster than Arc A750 And 10% more powerful than RTX 4060 from nvidia.
Source: Intel
Source: Intel
Apparently, the new cards will not achieve the performance of the RTX 4060 Ti, which was speculated about.
CSESS 2
Along with the release of Battlemage maps, a major update to XeSS technology was also announced in the form of CSESS 2. The novelty brings image generation and technology XeLL to reduce latency. We will discuss this in more detail in separate article.
Source : Zing
