Intel Xe architecture to be revealed at GDC in March

Posted on Monday, January 20 2020 @ 11:00 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Tom's Hardware noticed that an Intel Xe session appeared on the roster of the GDC 2020 conference in March. Intel's Antoine Cohade will discuss some of the powerful new features of the Xe architecture.

“Intel's brand new Xe Architecture, has been teased for a while, and is scheduled for release later this year," the description of the presentation on the GDC session scheduler reads. "This update brings a significant compute, geometry and throughput improvements over today's widely used Gen9 and Gen11 graphics.”

The listing further notes that the architecture tour will detail the structure of the its building blocks and their performance implications. For software developers, it will also explain how to optimize for these features. The target audience are game and engine developers and engineers with an interest in hardware.

I’ll be at #GDC this year again - talking about @IntelGraphics’ new GPU architecture come and say hi ! And let me know if you have specific questions you want me to cover ! https://t.co/nVYfkWaz7S
— Antoine Cohade (@acohade1) 14 januari 2020

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