Meet Xe HPG, the beating heart inside Intel’s first graphics cards
It’s the start of a new era of competition. As we’ve already seen, Intel has revealed its debut Arc GPUs, heralding its long-teased entry into discrete consumer graphics cards. Watch out, Nvidia and AMD. Chipzilla’s here, fuelled by its new Xe HPG (High-performance gaming) GPU architecture.
Intel took an unusual (but strategically smart) approach to Arc’s debut, rolling out Arc 3 graphics for modestly priced portable laptops. It lets the company leverage its substantial strengths in notebooks and software support rather than going blow-for-blow in gaming frame rates on the desktop, where Nvidia and AMD stand firm. We’ve already looked at the Arc 3 laptop GPU reveal and Intel’s killer features (page 12). There’s some pretty compelling stuff, including key ‘Deep Link’ features that add eye-opening capabilities when you pair an Intel Arc GPU with an Intel Core processor.
That’s not the point of this article though. As part of the reveal, Intel Fellow Tom Peterson also provided the press with a high-level overview of the Xe HPG architecture underpinning these Arc
