Intel fairly silently printed a paper that particulars the 11th technology graphics structure for his or her built-in GPUs. With Skylake got here Gen9 graphics, with Kaby Lake Gen9.5 and with the upcoming 10nm Ice Lake processors (late this 12 months) you could anticipate built-in graphics with Gen11 iGPUs.
Intel’s PDF is a 33 web page deep technical doc (obtain) that went into element on Gen11 graphics. Numerous the data within the presentation was already defined throughout Intel’s Architecture Day occasion, again in December.
From the look of issues, Intel might be pursuing iGPUs providing 1TFLOP, the highest tier mannequin GT2 will provide 64 execution models (EUs) and options elevated reminiscence compression, larges L3 caches and a Coarse Pixel Shading approach. Mind you that final gen that was 24 EUs. The 64 EUs are cut up into 4 partitions, slices at Intel refers them. Each partition/slice is made from two blocks that maintain eight EUs every. Each block then may have an instruction cache and extra load/retailer {hardware}. Also included might be Position Only Shading Tile Based Rendering, added show controller enhancements, Adaptive Sync help, and quite a lot of different issues. It’s fairly a step ahead truly.
On the media facet of issues Gen11 consists of an HEVC encoder with top quality encode and decode help. Intel mentions that by making use of parallel decoders it may possibly both help concurrent video streams or they are often mixed to help a single giant stream, and this scalable design will enable future {hardware} to push the height resolutions as much as 8K and past. Gen11 graphics for the Icelake 10nm processors will deliver Intel a superb notch nearer to AMD Ryzen APU graphics efficiency, however’we’re fairly sure that AMD is not sitting nonetheless both. For us desktop customers, IGPs, nevertheless, are much less necessary. Intel lists Gen11 concentrating on effectivity, efficiency, superior 3D and media capabilities, and naturally, higher gaming expertise.
Ice Lake for mainstream processors might floor finish of 2019, however early indications lean extra in direction of 2020. The structure follows a base design that is still shut in direction of the present Coffee lake technology, nevertheless, for Ice Lake a minimum of the L2 cache is predicted to double, amongst different issues in an effort to extend IPC.
