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Intel “DG2” Xe-HPG Graphics Cards to be Fabbed on TSMC’s 7nm Node

According to a report from Reuters, Intel is going to leverage TSMC’s 7nm+ node for its Xe-HPG (High-Performance Gaming) GPUs, slated to arrive later this year. Otherwise known as the “DG2”, the successor to the Xe-LP based Xe Iris Max “DG1”, Intel’s first wave of offerings in the mainstream gaming market are expected to compete across a wide spectrum, with as many as 4,096 shaders and 32MB of L3 cache:

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The graphics cards based on the DG2 die will reportedly compete in the $400 to $600 range, primarily offering performance in-line with the GeForce RTX 3060, 3060 Ti, 3070, and perhaps even the now uncertain 3070 Ti. The top-end offerings such as the RTX 3080 and the Radeon RX 6800 XT shouldn’t get a rival from Team Blue anytime soon.

DG2 will be fabricated either on the N7P or the N7+ node, both of which are more power-efficient and faster than the vanilla 7nm process used to manufacture AMD’s Navi and Navi 2x GPUs. They’re also a step ahead of Samsung’s 8nm LPP node (which is essentially a 10nm process) on which NVIDIA’s RTX 30 series “Ampere” graphics cards are fabbed.

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