Intel unveils Xe2 GPU architecture, which provides a 50% performace boost
, by Quentin
Intel has officially announced the Xe2 architcture, which will be included into Lunar Lake processors and the Arc Battlemage graphics range:
Its key features are:
- 8 x 512-bit vector engines
- 8 x 2048-bit XMX engines
- 192 KB shared L1/SLM cache
This architecture will deliver a performance improvement of around 50%. In addition, Intel has detailed a number of new features, including:
- 2nd-generation Xe2 cores
- Enhanced vector engines
- New XMX engines
- Enhanced performance and efficiency with optimized front-end
- Native hardware support for indirect commands
- More powerful ray tracing units
The Lunar Lake processor configuration is the following:
- 8 Xe2 cores
- 64 vector engines
- 2 geometry pipelines
- 8 samplers
- 4 pixel backends
- 8 ray tracing units
- 8 MB L2 cache