GRAPHICS CHANGING THE STATE OF PLAY

for an exciting year. AMD and Nvidia are squaring up against each other to deliver a new generation of powerful discrete GPUs, but there’s a newcomer: Intel, promising to make its GPU debut in 2020 with a new series of cards, currently named the Xe series. While we haven’t seen a full lineup announcement yet, at the time of writing, we have gathered a few scraps of information. The news of Xe’s existence was leaked all the way back in 2018, at which point the given code name was Arctic Sound. Intel was quick to do an official reveal, albeit one lacking any real information on the