In a nutshell: We already knew that Intel's Xe DG1 graphics card isn't going to be competing with the latest and greatest from Nvidia and AMD, but a new review shows it has potential as a budget 1080p selection.

The first benchmark of the Intel Xe DG1 graphics card appeared on the Basemark GPU database back in Apr. The consequence suggested it offered operation inferior to the Polaris-based Radeon RX 550 released back in 2022, which isn't great.

However, YouTube channel ETA PRIME managed to go its hands on a DG1 via a prebuilt, $749.99 CyberPowerPC gaming organization that includes an Asus DG1-4G. Information technology was tested beyond a range of games, giving u.s. a amend thought of the capabilities.

The carte du jour's specs come in at 80 execution units (EUs) or 640 shading units, 4GB of LPDDR4X-4266 beyond a 128-bit interface, a i,500 MHz boost clock speed, and information technology runs at but 30W, pregnant external PCIe power connectors are non required and it can be passively cooled.

The PC comes with a single stick of 8GB DDR4-3000 retentivity, which ETA PRIME swapped out for dual-channel 16GB DDR4-3600 to give a bit of a functioning uplift. Interestingly, it also features a Core i5-11400F, despite Intel previously saying the GPU could only be paired with 9th-Gen (Coffee Lake) and tenth-Gen (Comet Lake) processors. Information technology appears that Rocket Lake has been added to the compatibility list.

The gaming benchmarks evidence the Xe DG1 tin handle well-nigh games at 1080p pretty well when the graphics are set to normal or depression. GTA V gets between 79 – 92 fps at standard settings, Forza 4 averages over 60fps (low), and Genshin Bear upon is around 60fps (medium). Every bit yous might imagine, some enervating games do struggle: Cyberpunk 2077 tin only manage 30fps when at 720p with low settings, while Red Dead Redemption 2 gets between 32 – 47 fps at 900p with settings downgraded to low.

While the Xe DG1 looks to be on-par with some of the latest Ryzen APUs, the Xe-HPG (DG2) that recently had its GPU revealed has at least one SKU featuring 512 EUs, which could identify it somewhere between the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080, performance-wise