After much speculation, Intel’s DG1 graphics card has recently appeared in the SiSoft Sandra database, one of the popular benchmarking software. According to the gathered information, this graphics card has 768 graphics cores with a clock speed of up to 1.5 GHz and is equipped with up to 3GB VRAM. The codename DG1 seems to stand for discrete graphic – discrete graphics card.
This graphics card is certainly not intended to compete with NVIDIA GeForce or AMD Radeon in the gaming market but rather a line of graphics cards suitable for the basic needs of businesses. According to some preliminary information, Intel will also introduce a few GPU models tailored for gamers with VRAM capacities starting from 4GB, more graphics cores, and higher clock speeds than the DG1. However, the Intel DG1 still boasts a formidable power of 1.9 TFLOPs, surpassing even the graphics card of the PlayStation 4 Fat. This means that this GPU can also handle VR games.
Above are some preliminary details about the Intel DG1, the discrete graphics card that Intel has been nurturing for a long time. Hopefully, the “blue team” will develop multiple variants of this graphics card to meet the diverse needs of users, as the preliminary power of the DG1 at this point isn’t particularly enticing for those looking to invest in a computer with a discrete graphics card.