Intel Xe MAX GPU Announced, Features Deep Link Technology To Simultaneously Use iGPU, dGPU and CPU

Intel has appear some more details about its homegrown Xe MAX defended GPU and along with it a brand new platform applied science: Intel Deep Link. Deep Link basically allows Intel to employ the integrated graphics, dedicated graphics, and processor simultaneously for workloads where possible. Xe MAX combined with an iGPU beats out an NVIDIA MX 350 in graphics workloads and decimates the same in AI-related workloads.

Intel Xe MAX with Deep Link: Slightly better than MX350 in games, decimates an RTX 2080 in AI-related workloads using Deep Link

The Intel Iris Xe MAX discrete GPU features the same 96 EUs as its integrated analogue but unlike the latter, it has a higher TDP envelope that can push the clock speed to 1.65GHz and also contains a dedicated 4GB memory. Information technology features variable-rate shading and Intel DLBoost and works over PCIe 4.0. The core architecture is Intel Xe LP merely similar its integrated sibling.

Intel Iris Xe (iGPU) and Xe MAX (dGPU) are practically the same GPU and so its not surprising that Intel wanted to discover a platform technology that would allow them to pool their resources and beat out a competitor. Intel Deep Link is the name of that engineering. It is a platform innovation that allows Intel to tap not only the integrated GPU and dedicated GPU together - but as well the CPU itself. Compared to cross-vendor configurations (for instance NVIDIA-Intel), only one device would run a specific workload.

"We gear up out to redefine the function of discrete graphics in thin-and-light laptops and accost a growing segment of creators who want more portability. Iris Xe MAX graphics and Intel® Deep Link technology serve equally examples of the kind of platform-level innovation that Intel plans to bring to market in the future equally we execute to our scalable Xe roadmap."
– Roger Chandler, vice president and full general manager of Client XPU Production and Solutions in the Intel Architecture, Graphics and Software Group

What Deep Link Does: Deep Link aggregates multiple processing engines through a common software framework to bring new capabilities and better operation to PCs. This framework helps to unlock inventiveness in sparse-and-lite laptops by maximizing CPU performance, boosting artificial intelligence (AI) creation performance and taking manufacture leading encode to the adjacent level.

How Deep Link Works: Deep Link technology brings together processing engines nether a common software framework, allowing software developers to significantly boost content creation workload performance. Applications can scale certain workloads across integrated and detached graphics. Examples include:
An additive AI capability that enables inferencing and rendering on both GPUs to accelerate content-cosmos workloads.

A combination of industry-leading encode engines in each GPU through hyper encoding that allows the time to render out videos for reviewing or sharing.

The starting time Deep Link-enabled applications apply Intel® Media SDK, Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit and Intel® VTune™ Profiler to access the full power of the platform. Developers volition also be able to utilize Deep Link technology using Intel's powerful crossarchitecture oneAPI toolkits. Developers interested in accessing Deep Link applied science can sign upwards for time to come updates and information.

Intel Iris Xe MAX GPU gaming and AI benchmarks

No announcement would be complete without some commencement-party benchmarks and Intel does not disappoint on this count.

The Intel Iris Xe MAX notebook easily beats out NVIDIA's MX350 in 8/10 scenarios given in this benchmark. I besides appreciate the fact that information technology looks like Intel has tried not to cherry-pick benchmarks and actually requite a few examples where the NVIDIA MX350 beats the Intel Xe MAX solution similar Borderlands 3 and Gears Tactics. However, Intel Iris Xe MAX GPU is seen to offer more consistent functioning throughout the gaming tiers and absolutely destroys the MX350 in some heavy AAA titles like Metro Exodus. Since it can achieve 30+ fps on about AAA titles on low-medium setting, I would say this is the first entry-level gaming solution from Intel in years.

AI and productivity-related workloads on the other hand are a completely dissimilar scenario. Since Intel's Iris Xe MAX GPU already features DL Boost and on top of that Deep Link allows the notebook to distribute AI workloads to all three devices, an Xe MAX equipped notebook absolutely decimates its weight grade and even hands out a solid beating to NVIDIA'south RTX 2080 flagship mobility GPU. In encoding, Intel's benchmarks found the Intel Deep Link-based solution to be a resounding 78% faster than an NVIDIA RTX 2080!

Intel's Deep Link technology is a nerd's moisture dream. The complete utilization of bachelor resources with almost no wastage is exactly how things should be configured and embodies the 'to-the-metallic' philosophy that has fabricated consoles then powerful in the contempo past. The best part is, we might really see Deep Link enabled in some gaming applications since Intel was tightlipped simply mentioned that they are working on adding more applications to the platform.

The Dynamic Ability sharing also allows the visitor to fine melody performance (similar to AMD) in TDP constrained scenarios. Intel® Iris® Xe MAX graphics are available for Acer Swift 3x, Asus VivoBook Flip TP470 and Dell Inspiron 15 7000 ii in 1 starting today. These are the outset devices to leverage 11th Gen Intel Core mobile processors, Intel Iris Xe MAX graphics and Intel Deep Link technology.

The full printing deck for Intel Iris Xe MAX launch is given below: