Exclusive: Official Launch, Close Up And Hands-On With Intel DG1 Graphics Card

Exclusive: Official Launch, Close Up And Hands-On With Intel DG1 Graphics Card

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Although Videocardz has pretty much leaked everything to know about Intel's launch, here is our official coverage as well as hands-on by our US Editor, Keith May who there at the press event. A lot of people were complaining that Intel did not show off their next-generation Xe graphics card at CES. Well, we have a surprise for you – because Intel did actually show off the card to select press and here is our piece on it! In what can only be called a historic day: Intel has finally demonstrated its first, fully-working discrete graphics card (the DG1) and boy does it look good. The Intel DG1 GPU is the first step in Intel’s plan to take on NVIDIA and AMD in the discrete graphics market and change what has historically been a duopoly into a triopoly. According to Intel, the DG1 software development vehicle is being sampled to ISVs right now.

Intel had already demoed Xe mobile in their official presentation but this is the first time we are getting a look at the working DG1 GPU. They seem to have more or less finalized the look of their DG1 graphics card (as far as the software development vehicle goes at any rate) and while this is not a retail product yet, it is fairly retail-ready. There were a lot of concerns with some of the fan-concepts with regards to technical feasibility of the designs (they were mostly very hard to CNC) and people were wondering what Intel will eventually go with. The final result seems to be a grounded-in-reality yet whimsical look that I personally loved.