Friday, January 21st 2022
Intel Arc Alchemist Xe-HPG Graphics Card with 512 EUs Outperforms NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
Intel's Arc Alchemist discrete lineup of graphics cards is scheduled for launch this quarter. We are getting some performance benchmarks of the DG2-512EU silicon, representing the top-end Xe-HPG configuration. Thanks to a discovery of a famous hardware leaker TUM_APISAK, we have a measurement performed in the SiSoftware database that shows Intel's Arc Alchemist GPU with 4096 cores and, according to the report from the benchmark, just 12.8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM. This is just an error on the report, as this GPU SKU should be coupled with 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM. The card was reportedly running at 2.1 GHz frequency. However, we don't know if this represents base or boost speeds.
When it comes to actual performance, the DG2-512EU GPU managed to score 9017.52 Mpix/s, while something like NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti managed to get 8369.51 Mpix/s in the same test group. Comparing these two cards in floating-point operations, Intel has an advantage in half-float, double-float, and quad-float tests, while NVIDIA manages to hold the single-float crown. This represents a 7% advantage for Intel's GPU, meaning that Arc Alchemist has the potential for standing up against NVIDIA's offerings.
Sources:
SiSoftware Benchmark Database, @TUM_APISAK (Twitter), via VideoCardz
When it comes to actual performance, the DG2-512EU GPU managed to score 9017.52 Mpix/s, while something like NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti managed to get 8369.51 Mpix/s in the same test group. Comparing these two cards in floating-point operations, Intel has an advantage in half-float, double-float, and quad-float tests, while NVIDIA manages to hold the single-float crown. This represents a 7% advantage for Intel's GPU, meaning that Arc Alchemist has the potential for standing up against NVIDIA's offerings.
95 Comments on Intel Arc Alchemist Xe-HPG Graphics Card with 512 EUs Outperforms NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
Does the Intel GPU even have Cuda capabilities?
But at least it runs.Exactly. So far all I see is Intel baking very large IGPs on a separate chip, much like what's been seen of Xe in its budget configs up until this point (the obviously rebranded Intel IGP).
That's why they had such a quick run of those 4P slabs of sand but no useful numbers to go with it apart from the amount of hardware inside.
Look! We have a chip!
See, this here, is a chip! We also created a great backdrop so I look better today
Look, its still a chip! We also painted the walls & mopped the floor this time:
Todays' update:
Look, we have a chip and it produces some numbers!
Nvidia and Amd might have the next gen lined up ready to snatch sales away from intel.
I wonder what is taking intel so long to release these gpu?
Could it be drivers, software compatibility, hardware?
RTX 3070 Ti is plenty fast, and if this card can beat it, it puts NVIDIA and AMD on notice. Intel has the money to pull off even faster cards.
But not actually releasing any of it due to limited resource/ material in the world's current state with pandemic and what not.
Save money on production and use it for the next gen to compete with amd and nvidia
But it does not make it any less promising or impressive. OpenCL has a wa-a-a-ay more significant overhead, so if it manages to match RTX 3070Ti running same code in CUDA, it means it may be even faster if Intel's OneAPI picks up along with bare metal GPGPU libraries.
The main issue is this:
The have a GPU "coming soon" that outperforms something upper-midrange currently on the market.
I've seen that line above half a dozen times in the last 3 years.
At this point Intel needs to deliver a product to customers like they said they were going to do in 2019 and demo'd running at CES 2020.
Here we are in 2022, another CES been and gone, no DG2 launch yet, no dGPU available at retail yet, more smoke and mirrors bullshit.
At this point, only an official launch with samples and final retail drivers sent to the usual independent reviewers will convince me that Intel has finally made a real dGPU.
At this point everybody and their dog knows Intel "leaks" are not leaks but Intel PR marketing stunt.
Intel Arc Alchemist Xe-HPG Graphics Card with 512 EUs Outperforms NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti [I]In Completely Irrelevant Synthetic Benchmarks[/I]
Game benchmarks are all that matters, anything else is clickbait. Stop publishing clickbait.At least the hardware, you are done at some point, the drivers, you always need to invest time in it.
AMD fine wine was just AMD taking more time to optimize their drivers. They are getting better at it these days but in the past, day launch drivers were not super good.
But those numbers say nothing. Theorical performance don't mean much in game. The workload is so different. It's even different between games.
No one would think the company was working against the leaks when the "leaks" pops up EVERY WORKING DAY before the CPU launch, for a whole month.
If that's what you called working against the leaks ,
Intel should have fired the whole PR team since they are chaos in information security.