Intel DG2 GPU with 256 Execution Units spotted alongside 14-core Alder Lake mobile CPU

Published: Jun 25th 2021, 09:07 GMT   Comments

Intel DG2 with 256 Execution Units offers GeForce GTX 1050 performance

Intel DG2 appears in the Geekbench leak.

While the Geekbench result pages do not explicitly mention DG2, it is no secret that there are no Gen12 Xe GPUs from Intel featuring more than 96 Execution Units. There were actually two Gen12 GPUs tested in a very short time using the same Alder Lake CPU. One features 96 Execution Units, but the other features 256. One would guess that the former is an integrated GPU, while the latter is likely based on DG2-384 GPU (a cut-down SKU):

Intel DG2-128 & DG2-384 GPUs, Source: Igor’sLAB, VideoCardz

The 96 EU DG2 iGPU has a maximum frequency reported at 1.2 GHz, whereas the 256EU variant has 1.4 GHz. The memory information seems to be affected by the type of benchmark being used (Geekbench OpenCL test), but it is reported at 1.5 GB and 6.22 GB respectively for both variants. The latter is actually being recognized as ‘Gen 12 Desktop Graphics Controller’, however, this GPU being tested alongside Alder Lake CPU using FCBGA 1744 socket, indicates that we are looking at a notebook.

Intel DG2 96EU & 256EU, Source: Geekbench

Both GPUs were tested on a system equipped with 12th Gen Core Alder Lake CPU (possibly Alder Lake-P), with a reported base clock of 797 MHz and a maximum clock of 3989 MHz. The frequency reading is likely affected by the fact that this is a hybrid CPU with high-efficiency and high-performance cores on a single die. The fact that DG2 GPUs were tied to the ADL-P series shouldn’t really be surprising to our readers, because we knew Intel had plans to combine Alder Lake-P with its DG2 series for a long time:

Intel Alder Lake-P & DG2 8GB, Source: Uniko’s Hardware

Intel Alder Lake 14C/20T mobile CPU, Source: Geekbench

In terms of performance, well it is not great. The DG2-256 scores around 18450 points which put it very far in the official ranking. This is a performance of the Pascal GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card. The 96 EU integrated GPU scores much lower with performance similar to GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi). Those are of course very early benchmarks and we expect those scores to improve, hopefully by a big margin.

Intel Xe 96EU iGPU (left) & DG2-256 (right) Geekbench OpenCL perforamnce, Source: Geekbench

INTEL DG2 Mobile & Desktop SKU (Rumored Specs)
VideoCardzSKU1SKU?SKU2SKU3SKU4SKU5
PackageBGA2660BGA2260BGA2660BGA2660BGA1379BGA1379
GPUDG2-512EUDG2-512EUDG2-384EUDG2-384EUDG2-128EUDG2-128EU
Execution Units
 
512
 
448
 
384
 
256
 
128
 
96
Shading Units
 
4096
 
3584
 
3072
 
2048
 
1024
 
768
Memory
 
16GB GDDR6
TBC
 
12GB GDDR6
 
8GB GDDR6
 
4GB GDDR6
 
4GB GDDR6
Bus
 
256-bit
TBC
 
192-bit
 
128-bit
 
64-bit
 
64-bit
Boost Clock (GHz)1.8-2.2 GHz1.8 GHz1.8 GHz1.4 GHz1.9 GHzTBC
TGP120W-235WTBC80W60W35W25W

Source: Geekbench (DG2-256) via @leakbench, Geekbench (DG2-96) via @BenchLeaks




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