Posted on Wednesday, August 12 2020 @ 22:27 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
It's been a while since we last heard news about Intel's Xe for gamers. VideoCardz
claims the chip giant is working on the Xe-HPG, a variant of its Xe architecture that will target the gaming market. The card (or cards) based on this chip will reportedly use GDDR6 memory and may hit the market in 2021.
Intel has not confirmed the specifications of the GPU, but it was said that it features the GDDR6 memory subsystem to improve the performance per dollar ratio. On the other hand, the Xe-HP series will feature HBM memory.
NVIDIA introduced hardware raytracing 2 years ago with GeForce RTX 20 series. AMD is expected to launch its RDNA2-based graphics cards leveraging hardware raytracing later this year. Intel has also confirmed their Xe-HPG series will support hardware-accelerated raytracing.
VideoCardz heard the Xe-HPG GPU will be manufactured by an external foundry, likely TSMC.
