Raja Koduri would have hinted at the first Intel Xe-HPG (DG2) gaming GPU in 3DMark

Raja Koduri published a photograph on his official Twitter account in the laboratories that Intel has in Folsom, California, and it is left between seeing that they are testing a gaming graphics card, in the form of an engineering sample, and a proof of this is which seems to be a graphics chip dissipated by a very rustic cooling system, and of course, that it is gaming is easily sensed since on the computer screen it was shown that they were inside the start menu of the well-known 3DMark benchmarking software.

From 2012 to 2021 - same Intel Folsom lab, many of the same engineers with more grey hair , I was at Apple back then, getting hands on with pre-production crystalwell, 9 years later playing with a GPU that’s >20x faster! pic.twitter.com/RgmRJuhOXw

— Raja Koduri (@Rajaontheedge) March 12, 2021

A closer look reveals an engineering board with a large heatsink and fan similar to the solutions used for a CPU, and this is because the graphics chips in this early phase of testing are usually mounted in a kind of socket for fast evaluation. This graphic has to be an Intel Xe-HPG, also known as Intel DG2, that is, a gaming graphics card for the desktop market, although it is not really known which model was being analyzed.

Possible engineering board of an Intel Xe-HPG (DG2)

According to the latest reports, the top-of-the-range model with 512 EUs, which translates into a total of  4096 shaders/cores that would be accompanied by  8GB / 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM memory along with a 256-bit memory interface.

Along with the top-of-the-range model, we would have five more graphics cards that go through offering  3072 cores with a 192-bit memory interface and 6GB / 12GB of VRAM memory; 2048 cores with 128 bits and 4GB / 8GB of VRAM; 1536 cores with 128 bits and 4 GB VRAM; 1024 cores with 64 bits and 4 GB VRAM; and the most basic model has  768 cores with a 64-bit memory interface and 4 GB of memory, while the  Intel Iris Xe Max for laptops has  128 bits, although the laptop model uses LPDDR4X memory and this dedicated GPU I would use GDDR6 memory.

The rumored Intel Xe-HPG (DG2) family of GPUs

Model	GPU	Shading Units	Memory	Memory interface
Xe-HPG 512EU	DG2-512EUs	4096	16 / 8GB GDDR6	256 bits
Xe-HPG 384EU	DG2-384EUs	3072	12 / 6GB GDDR6	192 bits
Xe-HPG 256EU	DG2-384EUs	2048	8 / 4GB GDDR6	128 bit
Xe-HPG 192EU	DG2-384EUs	1536	4GB GDDR6	128 bit
Xe-HPG 128EU	DG2-128EUs	1024	4GB GDDR6	64 bit
Xe-HPG 96EU	DG2-128EUs	768	4GB GDDR6	64 bit