At CES 2022, AMD, NVIDIA and Intel all showcased their own unique display technology and future development direction. With the passage of time, AMD, NVIDIA two manufacturers have listed a new thousand-yuan unique display, and Intel ARC Alchemist DG2 graphics card is also attracting attention, and recently these three manufacturers have a series of hot news exposure.
In the face of the current high premium of AMD and NVIDIA mainstream unique display products, many DIY players are more looking forward to Intel's return to the unique display business to break this deadlock. Therefore, it has attracted much attention since the ARC series has been exposed alone. Recently, bloggers have announced more details about the DG2 GPU memory configuration.
First, according to the screenshots, the DG2 unique display of the flagship 512EU SKU is equipped with 16Gbps/16GB/GDDR6 memory (8 particles), and the 512bit bit width can achieve 12GB/s bandwidth. Secondly, the DG2 display of the high-end 384EU SKU is equipped with 16Gbps/12GB/GDDR6 memory (6 particles), and the 192-bit width can achieve 384GB/s bandwidth. The third mainstream SKU has 256EU, comes with 16Gbps/8GB/GDDR6 memory (4 particles) and a 128-bit width for 256GB/s bandwidth.
According to previous news: Intel DG2 display is based on the high-performance Xe-HPG architecture and uses TSMC's 7nm process technology. The performance of the flagship 512 EU can be compared with the NVIDIA 3070 Ti, which is really expected.
As the first new graphics card in 2022 to target the thousand-dollar level, the AMD RX 6500 XT can be said to have been released in the midst of discussion. Although the current market price is about 1999 yuan, it is only 400 yuan more than the listing guidance price of 1599 yuan. However, because it is only configured with 4GB of video memory specifications, players are complaining.
Finally, let's look at the NVIDIA side. It has to be said that the high premium problem of its RTX 30 series continues to exist, and the release time of the high-profile RTX 40 series is still unclear. Recently, it has been reported that due to exchange rate problems, NVIDIA has recently raised the suggested retail price (MSRP) of RTX 30 series graphics cards in the European market, ranging from 5 to 6%.
However, this price increase does not make any practical sense, because not only in Europe, RTX 30 series graphics cards are sold at much higher than the official retail price around the world. Such a price increase operation can be said to have a greater negative impact.
Finally, back to the question in the title: Will 2022 restore the rational situation? At present, the three major graphics card manufacturers are working hard to curb the high premium and shortage of graphics cards, although there are professional "mining card" products launched, but for better second-hand high-end game graphics cards may still be in a high premium situation. For the future market of mainstream game graphics cards, especially the new generation of graphics cards, from the actual sales price and supply volume of AMD's latest thousand-yuan RX 6500 XT, it is still better than 2021, and the rest is only left to time to test.