Intel Teases ‘Arctic Sound’ Discrete Graphics Cards For 2020

During late 2017, Intel announced that Raja Koduri (Ex-Senior VP and Chief Architect at AMD) will be joining them to develop integrated and discrete graphics solutions for the blue giant. As we all know, Intel doesn’t have an actual discrete solution of their own and they would require someone with expertise in this field to develop a graphics architecture that will power their future chips. Raja is just the person that Intel was looking for and in less than a year, Intel is finally showing us the first official teaser of their upcoming discrete graphics card. The teaser makes it sound a lot like it came from Raja Koduri since it talks a lot about powering pixels. Similar quotes were made for Polaris and Vega before they were announced by the then head of AMD’s Radeon Technology Group but since he’s at Intel now, it seems like he is going to continue with his original aims which he wasn’t able to accomplish with team red. From previous rumors, we know that the blue team is working on at least two next-generation GPUs that will be used to power their discrete graphics cards and integrated graphics lineup. The GPU architecture would be scalable to be featured on their top-to-bottom lineup that includes desktop, mobile processors and entry-level to high-end gaming graphics cards / HPC accelerators. It is stated that while these cards would launch in 2020. What We know about The Next-Gen Arctic Sounds GPU Architecture

The discrete graphics cards are expected to feature the next-generation Arctic Sound discrete GPU. The codenames include the 12th Generation Arctic Sound discrete GPU and the 13th Generation Jupiter Sound discrete GPU. Just to make the generation clear, Intel’s current Gen 9 and Gen 9.5 solutions are found on Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake chips while Gen 10 will arrive on Cannonlake processors if previous reports are to be taken into account. As for the process, Intel will be offering their first mainstream 10nm products based on Ice Lake architecture in 2020 so we can expect the discrete GPUs to be based on the same process if the manufacturing yield allows.