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Not to be confused with Intel Parallel Studio XE or Intel Xeon.

Intel Xe (stylized as Xe), earlier known unofficially as Gen12,[1][2] is the name of a GPU architecture[3] and a general purpose GPU (GPGPU) and discrete GPU (dGPU) product line under development by Intel.

Intel Xe
Release dateSeptember 2, 2020 (2020-09-02)
History
PredecessorGen 11

Intel Xe includes a new instruction set architecture. The Xe GPU family consists of a series of microarchitectures, ranging from integrated/low power (Xe-LP),[4] to enthusiast/high performance gaming (Xe-HPG), datacenter/high performance (Xe-HP) and high performance computing (Xe-HPC).[5][6]

History

Intel's first attempt at a dedicated graphics card was the Intel740,[7] released in February 1998. The Intel740 was considered unsuccessful due to its performance which was lower than market expectations, causing Intel to cease development on future discrete graphics products. However, its technology lived on in the Intel Extreme Graphics lineup.[8] Intel made another attempt with the Larrabee architecture before cancelling it in 2009;[9] this time, the technology developed was used in the Xeon Phi, which was discontinued in 2020.[10]

In April 2018, it was reported that Intel was assembling a team to develop discrete graphics processing units, targeting both datacenters, as well as the PC gaming market, and therefore competitive with products from both Nvidia and AMD.[11] Rumors supporting the claim included that the company had vacancies for over 100 graphics-related jobs, and had taken on former Radeon Technologies Group (AMD) leader Raja Koduri in late 2017 – the new product was reported to be codenamed "Arctic Sound".[11] The project was reported to have initially been targeting video streaming chips for data centers, but had its scope expanded to include desktop GPUs.[11]

In June 2018, Intel confirmed it planned to launch a discrete GPU in 2020.[12]

The first functional discrete "Xe" GPU, codenamed "DG1", was reported as having begun testing in October 2019.[13]

According to a report by hexus.net in late 2019, a discrete GPU would launch in mid 2020; combined GPU/CPU (GPGPU) products were also expected, for data center and autonomous driving applications. The product is expected to be initially built on a 10 nm node (with 7 nm products in 2021) and use Intel's Foveros die stacking packaging technology (see 3D die stacking).[14]

Architecture

Intel Xe includes a new instruction set architecture, with practically all instruction encodings being altered.[2] New features include Sampler Feedback,[15] Dual Queue Support[16] DirectX12 View Instancing Tier2[17] AV1 8-bit and 10-bit fixed-function hardware decoding.[18]

Microarchitectures

The Xe GPU family consists of a series of microarchitectures.

Xe-LP

Xe-LP is the low power variant of the Xe architecture.[4] The Xe-LP architecture is present as integrated graphics for 11th-generation Intel Core and the Iris Xe MAX mobile dedicated GPU (codenamed DG1), as well as in the H3C XG310 Intel Server GPU (codenamed SG1).[2]

Xe-HPG

Xe-HPG is the enthusiast or high performance gaming variant of the Xe architecture. The microarchitecture is focused on graphics performance and supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing.[5][19] The microarchitecture is based on Xe-LP with improvements from Xe-HP and Xe-HPC. It will be fabricated using an external fab.[5] Intel announced that Xe-HPG DG2 is codenamed Alchemist and will be branded under the Intel Arc Graphics branding and future Intel Arc Graphics GPUs generation are codenamed Battlemage, Celestial and Druid.[20] Intel also confirmed that Alchemist GPUs support DisplayPort 2.0.[21]

Xe-HP

Xe-HP is the datacenter/high performance variant of Xe, optimized for FP64 performance and multi-tile scalability.[3]

Xe-HPC

Xe-HPC is the high performance computing variant of the Xe architecture.[5][6] It powers Ponte Vecchio.

Products using Xe

Integrated graphics

Newer Intel processors use the Xe-LP microarchitecture. These include 11th generation Intel Core processors (codenamed "Tiger Lake" and "Rocket Lake").[2]

Model Process Execution

units

Shading

units

Max boost clock

(MHz)

Processing power (GFLOPS) Notes
FP16 FP32 FP64 INT8
Intel UHD Graphics 730 Intel 14++ nm 24 192 1200–1300 Used in Rocket Lake-S
Intel UHD Graphics 750 32 256 1200–1300
Intel UHD Graphics P750 32 256 1300 Used in Xeon W-1300 series
Intel UHD Graphics for 11th Gen Intel Processors Intel 10SF 32 256 1400–1450 Used in Tiger Lake-H
Intel UHD Graphics for 11th Gen Intel Processors G4 48 384 1100–1250 1690–1920 845-960 422–480 3379–3840 Used in Tiger Lake-U
Iris Xe Graphics G7 80 640 1100–1300 2816–3328 1408–1664 704–832 5632–6656
Iris Xe Graphics G7 96 768 1100–1350 3379–4147 1690–2074 845–1037 6758–8294

Discrete graphics

Model Process Execution

units

Shading

units

Clock speeds Memory Processing power (GFLOPS) Notes
Boost clock

(MHz)

Memory

(MT/s)

Size

(GB)

Bandwidth

(GB/s)

Bus

type

Bus width

(bit)

FP16 FP32 FP64 INT8
Iris Xe MAX Intel 10SF 96 768 1650 4266 4 68 LPDDR4x 128 5069 2534 1267 10138  

Intel Iris Xe Max (DG1)

In August 2020, Intel was reported to be shipping Xe DG1 GPUs for a possible late 2020 release, while also commenting on a DG2 GPU aimed at the enthusiast market. The DG1 is also sold as the Iris Xe MAX and as Iris Xe Graphics (stylized as iRIS Xe) in laptops, while cards for developers are sold as the DG1 SDV.[22][23]

The Xe MAX is an entry-level GPU that was first released on November 1, 2020 in China and is similar in most aspects to the integrated GPU found in Tiger Lake processors, the only differences being a higher clock speed, slightly higher performance and dedicated memory and a dedicated TDP requirement. It competes with Nvidia's laptop-level GeForce MX series GPUs. It is aimed at slim and highly portable productivity laptops and has 4GB of dedicated LPDDR4X-4266 memory with a 128-bit wide memory bus, has 96 EUs, 48 texture units, 24 ROPs, a peak clock speed of 1650 MHz and a performance of 2.46 FP32 teraFLOPs with a 25w TDP. By comparison, the integrated GPU in Tiger Lake processors has a performance of 2.1 FP32 teraFLOPs.[24][25] The Xe MAX does not replace the system's integrated GPU; instead it was designed to work alongside it, so tasks are split between the integrated and discrete GPUs.[26] It is initially available on only 3 laptops: The Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TP470, the Acer Swift 3X, and the Dell Inspiron 15 7000. Intel Xe MAX GPUs can only be found on systems with Tiger Lake processors.

Desktop versions of the Xe MAX were expected to be released in early 2021 exclusively to OEMs for use in low-cost desktop computers. Such computers are expected to have graphics that are better than those offered by integrated GPUs while saving on costs and allowing OEMs to advertise the dedicated GPU in such systems.[27]

Intel Iris Xe graphics desktop cards

Intel officially announced Intel Iris Xe Graphics desktop cards for OEMs and system integrators on January 26, 2021. It is aimed at mainstream desktop and business PCs as an improvement over other graphics options in AV1 video decoding, HDR (high dynamic range) video support and deep learning inference, and is not as powerful as its laptop counterpart, with only 80 enabled EUs. The first cards are made by Asus, have DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0, Dual Link DL-DVI-D outputs and are passively cooled.[28][29][30][31]

Ponte Vecchio

Intel officially announced their Xe general HPC/AI GPU codenamed Ponte Vecchio on November 17, 2019. It will use the Xe-HPC variant of the architecture[32] and Intel's 'Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge' (EMIB) and Foveros die stacking packaging on a 7 nm node. The new GPU is expected to be used in Argonne National Laboratory's new exascale supercomputer, Aurora, with compute nodes comprising two next generation Intel Xeon (codenamed "Sapphire Rapids") CPUs, and six Ponte Vecchio GPUs.[33][34]

See also

References

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