First Intel gaming graphics card surfaced in Geekbench database
Intel will soon introduce its first gaming graphics cards. Now a Geekbench database entry of an Intel GPU with 2200 MHz clock frequency has appeared. It looks like this will be the weakest of three allegedly upcoming GPUs with XE-HPG architecture.
Intel's first gaming graphics card with XE-HPG architecture has appeared in Geekbench's database. Presumably, this is the card with the designation DG2-128EU, for which a board diagram was already leaked in May. It has 128 execution units, which is assumed to correspond to 1024 shader cores, and has a clock rate of 2200 MHz. Furthermore, the entry reveals a graphics memory of 4.67 gigabytes. The graphics card got an OpenCL Geekbench 5 score of 13,710. The achieved score corresponds to what is roughly achievable with AMD's Radeon RX-550 series from 2017.
The specified graphics memory needs to be taken with a grain of salt and might even wrong: Geekbench previously tended to give an incorrect RAM value for integrated Intel GPUs. Furthermore, it looks like there isn’t a final driver yet, which is why the achieved Open CL score is also only a rough guideline. The performance indicates this is an entry-level model.
Also, Geekbench's tests are generally not very informative. Not that many aspects are evaluated and the tests take a very short time, which means that important aspects are disregarded. The cooling of a device is one of them. Nevertheless, Geekbench is popular because the benchmark for CPU and GPU works on virtually all devices including smartphones with Android and iOS.
According to rumours, the graphics card that surfaced on Geekbench is supposed to be the weakest of three high-performance graphics cards that are supposed to be unveiled later this year or at CES 2022. The other two are said to be another midrange model (DG2-384EU) with 384 EUs and 3072 shader cores and a high-end model (DG2-512EU) with 512 EUs and 4096 shaders. It probably has a 6-nanometre or 7-nanometre chipmaking technology.
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