Inside the first Intel graphics card: Too sketchy

As much excitement as it is disappointing, Intel’s graphics card is no different from a version on Iris XE on a laptop that is enlarged?

Review of the author “people’s doctor” – Thinkview.

As we all know, Intel has just launched their first discrete graphics card. In the current sensitive graphics card market, Intel DG1 seems to be a lifesaver for systems that need a graphics card to operate. Unfortunately, this did not happen as expected by the market.

Iris XE is an ambitious graphics platform from Intel, it is quite good at the present time when operating on 11th generation Intel Core laptops. However, it seems that the potential of Iris XE has not stopped. there, it is not really ready to be able to bring the highest persuasion to the market. This graphics platform needs to be more optimized for applications. Whether the Intel DG1 is really a graphics card or not, it is still enough to create curiosity. Therefore, what is inside an Intel DG1 really, it is still a big question mark.

Igor’s Lab – a technology news site in Germany has a pretty detailed dissection of Intel’s first discrete graphics card. Basically, Intel DG1 looks like a cheap graphics card, the board is small, the components and the cooling system are very simple, we can see that the GPU core in the middle is no different from the version. iris XE Max on laptops. It is also equipped with 4 LPDDR4 chips with 8GB of VRAM. You don’t even see the VRM array of this card anywhere. And it also doesn’t need extra power pins.

Compared to a GTX 1650 version of the same size, the Intel DG1 really doesn’t have much to talk about.

Intel DG1 graphics card is also provided with 3 DisplayPort 1.4 ports and 1 HDMI 2.1 port allowing users to choose the most advanced output options.

Unlike most Iris XE and XE Max GPUs on laptops, the Intel DG1 gets 75W of power from the PCIe slot, it’s not clear if it’s used up but if it takes full advantage of this power, combined with heat dissipation system. The performance of Intel DG1 can also be said to be stable if it is classified in the entry segment.

Of course, we should still give our praise to the Intel Iris XE in general and the potential of the DG1 in particular. At least for now, it’s a performance superior to the Intel UHD integrated graphics chip. Intel is also very smart not to announce the performance of Intel DG1 when the driver of this card is still incomplete, there are still many compatibility problems with hardware and applications. The DG1 is currently only compatible with 9th and 10th generation Intel Cores, which are only equipped with Intel UHD. Is it possible that DG1 in the future will become the most advanced option when it comes with an Intel CPU?

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