Intel Iris A series of mobile discrete graphics has officially debuted, opening a new era of Intel high-performance graphics, showing the world Intel's ambition to enter the field of high-performance graphics! This is significant not only for Intel itself, but also for the PC industry as a whole!
List of new graphics card models
Thousands of calls began to come out, let's first look at these new products. Intel Iris A series mobile discrete graphics include Iris 3 series, Iris 5 series, and Iris 7 series. Series 3 is entry-level, Series 5 is mid-range, and Series 7 is high-end. Intel 3, 5, 7 this easy-to-understand naming method has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and now continue to apply to high-performance graphics cards, is still so easy to understand, people are not difficult to identify.
The Ruixuan 7 series includes two new products, namely A730M and A770M. The Rui Xuan 5 series includes a new product, the A550M. The Ruixuan 3 series includes two new products, namely A350M and A370M.
The entry-level Rui Xuan 3 series is currently on the market, while the mid-range Rui Xuan 5 series and the high-end Rui Xuan 7 series will be available in the early summer of this year.
The new Intel Xe HPG architecture
After the easy-to-understand content is finished, the author will introduce the Ruixuan A series mobile discrete graphics card in a step-by-step manner.
The A-series mobile discrete graphics codename Alchemy, based on the Intel Xe HPG architecture design, mainly built into Intel's advanced Xe core, Xe media engine, Xe display engine, Xe graphics pipeline.
Xe Core – The Xe core with the Xe Matrix Extension (XMX) AI engine delivers 16x the computing power of AI inference compared to traditional GPU vector units, which will also help significantly improve the performance of productivity, game and content creation workloads.
Xe Media Engine – The Xe Media Engine accelerates numerous video codecs and supports a wide range of industry standards, as well as industry-leading AV1 hardware-accelerated encodings. AV1 is 50% more energy efficient than the most common codec available today, H.264, and 30% more efficient than H.265.
Xe Display Engine – The Xe Display Engine can support high-resolution, high-refresh rate HDR displays, and it also supports several of the latest industry standards, such as the uncompressed 4K @120Hz display refresh rate content through Display Port 2.0 10G.
Xe Graphics Pipeline – To render a 3D graphic, you must follow a series of steps. The Xe Graphics Pipeline is a series of steps for rendering 3D graphics on the standalone graphics card of the Sharp A Series mobile terminal.
This part of the content is very high in technology, and ordinary people can simply know it.
ACM-G10 and ACM-G11 display cores
Intel Iris A Series mobile discrete graphics are primarily based on the ACM-G10 and ACM-G11 display core design.
The mid-range Ruixuan 5 series and the high-end Ruixuan 7 series are based on the ACM-G10 display core design, support PCIe4.0 x16, and have up to 32 Xe cores, 32 ray-traced units, and 256-bit wide GDDR6 video memory.
The entry-level Ruixuan 3 series is based on the ACM-G11 display core design, supports PCIe4.0 x8, and has up to 8 Xe cores, 8 ray tracing units, and 96-bit wide GDDR6 video memory.
Advanced Gaming Technology – Xe Supersampling (XeSS)
NVIDIA has DLSS, and netizens jokingly call it "Popeye". AMD has FSR, netizens jokingly called "sunscreen".
Now, with the official release of intel iris A series of mobile discrete graphics, Intel has also launched its own gaming technology , Xe Supersampling (XeSS).
According to Intel's official introduction, the AI-driven Intel XeSS supersampling technology can greatly improve game performance. For example, allow a game to render game frames at native 1080p resolution, and then achieve image quality close to native 4K resolution with XeSS supersampling technology.
Intel is currently working with game studios around the world to optimize technologies such as Intel's Iris Discrete Graphics and XeSS on a number of next-generation games.
XeSS will be released this summer and is expected to be supported by more than 20 games. In order to allow more software and hardware in the industry to support the technology, Intel plans to make the XeSS SDK and toolkit available to everyone.
Intel Deep Link technology
The Iris A-series mobile discrete graphics will support Intel Deep Link technology, which enables Iris discrete graphics to work seamlessly with Intel CPUs and integrated graphics, and enhances the gaming, authoring, and streaming experience with the following features:
Super Encoding – Compared to Intel Iris Xe graphics alone, Super Encoding enables media engines across the platform to be combined to each other, resulting in 60% faster video encoding.
Super hashrate – Similarly, super computing power can invoke multiple compute and AI engines across the Intel platform, including Intel Core processors, Iris Xe graphics, and Intel Iris discrete graphics, to accelerate a variety of workloads.
Dynamic Power Sharing— Based on workload, Dynamic Power Sharing intelligently and automatically prioritizes engine performance and allocates more power to Intel Core processors or Intel IRis Graphics as needed, boosting the performance of creative and compute-intensive applications by up to 30%.
New Intel Iris Control Panel
The Intel Iris Control Panel also comes along with the Iris A-series mobile discrete graphics. It's a one-stop control panel that supports convenient interactions, giving users full control over the gaming experience. The Dashboard includes custom performance profiles, built-in live streaming settings, virtual cameras, integrated Game ON driver downloads, automatic generation of game highlight moments, and more. The Intel Iris Control Panel supports Intel Iris Xe, Iris Xe MAX, and Iris Discrete Graphics for a unified software experience.
Gaming performance and productivity performance showcase
Since the entry-level Rite 3 Series mobile discrete graphics are already available, Intel has also announced some of the gaming performance and productivity performance of the graphics series.
Of course, the strongest 7 series is of course more eye-catching. As mentioned earlier in the article, the Rui Xuan 5 series and the Rui Xuan 7 series will not be released until the beginning of this summer, and everyone has to be patient and wait!
Helping Intel Evo Platform Certified Notebooks Reach New Highs in Performance
Many of the first laptops equipped with Intel Iris discrete graphics will be certified by the Intel Evo platform and use Intel's latest 12th generation Core processors, creating an ultra-thin and light experience for users, while also combining Wi-Fi 6, instant response and long battery life. The intel®stencil graphics will provide mobile devices with great gaming and creative capabilities.
Written at the end - my opinion
For game performance, because Intel has just started, the author estimates that in the short term, Intel will be difficult to compete with the industry overlord NVIDIA. Of course, Intel can learn from the strategy of Tianji horse racing, dislocation competition, and find its own market segment is the best policy!
For productivity performance, Intel's previous HD graphics have shown great strength. Now that the graphics card specifications are more powerful, they will certainly be more competitive.
Finally, the author also hopes that Intel can do a good job of the graphics driver, after all, the hardware is far from enough, and the supporting software must also be forced, so that it is really good!