Gone are the days when AMD dominated the integrated GPU market. AMD’s fierce rival, Intel, is now leading the iGPU race.
As reported by reputed hardware leaker Golden Pig Upgrade Pack on the Chinese forum Bilibili, the qualification sample of the Meteor Lake operates within 20 to 65W. Based on the Xe-LPG architecture, the GPU subsystem could offer the performance of 4.5 FP32 TFLOPS, comparable to the Arc A380 or A370M discrete GPUs. This is about 5% faster than competitor AMD’s Radeon 780M iGPU based on the RDNA3 architecture.
As per the post by the leaker, the laptop-oriented Meteor Lake prototype will feature six high-performance Redwood Cove cores running at 4.8 GHz.
This will be coupled with eight energy-efficient Crestmont cores and two low-power Crestmont Cores. The TDP range is adjustable, starting at 20W and going as high as 65W.
The same post by Golden Pig Upgrade also confirmed the presence of a Core Ultra 9 model that can hit atleast 5.0 GHz boost CPU clock.
As for the iGPU, it will reportedly feature 128 Execution Units. This is equivalent to 1024 Stream Processors, i.e., 8 Xe Clusters. These execution units can boost to a maximum of 2.2 GHz.
It performs 5% better than AMD’s Radeon 780M iGPU. Based on the RDNA3 architecture, this GPU is used with powerful and capable Phoenix APUs.
Phoenix APUs have been incorporated into small handheld gaming systems like the ASUS ROG Ally. However, the laptop segment of the APUs has disappointed users a bit.
If Intel sorts out its driver issue and smoothens all the edges ahead of the release of a GPU, be it integrated or discrete, it could lead well ahead of AMD and provide stiff competition in the saturated iGPU market.
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Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in Silicon Valley. It is the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturer on the basis of revenue, and is the developer of the x86 series of microprocessors – the processors found in most personal computers (PCs).
Incorporated in Delaware, Intel ranked No. 46 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
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