Intel xe dg1 leaks, up to 40% faster than 7nm vega

The Intel Xe DG1 GPU has been featured in multiple databases, including displaying its graphical potential in 3DMark, where it easily outperforms the new 7nm Vega GPUs featured on AMD's Ryzen 4000 processors.

Intel Xe DG1 would offer 40% more performance than Ryzen 4000 integrated graphics

The Intel Xe DG1 GPU is the first publicly announced chip to make its way into the consumer market later this year. The first performance benchmarks seem to come to light, including tests done on both Tiger Lake (integrated GPUs) and Coffee Lake (discrete GPUs). The Tiger Lake family will be the first to introduce the integrated Xe graphics architecture, while Coffee Lake's CPU inputs feature discrete graphics cards that could well be the aforementioned DG1 GPU-based SDV.

Reaching the benchmarks, the Intel Xe DG1 GPU is tested in the Geekbench 5 OpenCL benchmark. The Tiger Lake-U variant of the chip reportedly features 96 runtime units with a reported clock speed of 1.50 GHz. OpenCL's score for this platform is 12444. The Tiger Lake-U chip is a 4-core, 8-wire variant that operates at a base frequency of 2.30 GHz. On closer inspection, the chip is not using its GPU. Integrated Gen 12 Xe, but a discrete Xe DG1 graphics card.

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Coffee Lake RS variants are discrete desktop graphics cards and not embedded parts like the one featured on the Tiger Lake platform. Both entries, the Core i5-9600K and Core i9-9900K deliver a similar score of 11990 and 12053, respectively. While both platforms are configured with the 96-drive DG1 GPU, they feature slightly variable clock speeds of 1.00 and 1.05 GHz, respectively.

At 3DMark, the benchmarks compare DG1 discrete graphics cards with the variant built into the Tiger Lake-U processors and also with AMD's Renoir 'Ryzen 4000' line of APUs. In overall graphics scoring, the DG1 GPU is faster than all the other chips tested, yet the Ryzen 7 4800U manages to get very close. The Tiger Lake-U's built-in variant is, however, around 18% slower than the Ryzen 7 4700U.

Now the most interesting part is that in three of the four tests, the DG1 discrete GPU handles up to 40% more performance than the Ryzen 7 4800U. The Ryzen 7 4800U features the upgraded 7nm Vega GPU, with 512 stream processors packed into 8 compute units, and each CU is up to 59% faster than the 14nm Vega architecture. There's only one graphics test that the AMD GPU leads and it's the first graphics test that focuses more on volumetric illumination and shadows.

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There have also been revelations about Ray Tracing features found in Intel's latest GPU driver code. We don't know if they're referring to the first iteration of Xe GPUs or the second generation, but considering that everyone is jumping on the ray tracing bandwagon this year, Intel may not want to miss out on its Xe GPUs.

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