Intel Rocket Lake 8C/16T CPUs spotted in Geekbench and AoTS

[ik9000]

Tiger Lake's integrated Xe-LP GPU looks like a winner. 30% higher volume than projected.

That Xe-HP 42TFlop FP32 looks like a winner, too. Installed at Argonne.

That Xe SG1 4 Xe GPUs on a passively cooled card looks like a winner, too. Tencent agrees.

oh? Really? Any sources for those? I remember Larrabee. Without wishing to sound like a Thomas, until I have one in my hand and see it in action I will not believe in Xe.

[Tabbykatze]

more than not developing a new architecture in a timely fashion despite a distinct competitive advantage for an entire decade?

There's a difference between stagnation with a good (albeit aging) product than cowboying it. Raja is a smart guy but I don't think he is quite the leadership material without having someone pull on his chain and I expect Xe is only getting so good because the focus has been forced to be on "make the product better" and not "market the product". Intel doesn't need marketing, they need a strong product that is a departure from the time of old.

Tiger Lake's integrated Xe-LP GPU looks like a winner. 30% higher volume than projected.

Any more so than an MX350 or a Vega 11 because that's where the Tiger Lake iGPU is sitting. Not disparaging that it is quite a good offering but it's wildly overstating the "power" of Xe within it compared to its power envelope. If it were that amazing, why is its advertising so muted except when Ryan Shrout is allowed to talk about it...

That Xe-HP 42TFlop FP32 looks like a winner, too. Installed at Argonne.

It's not installed yet, Intel dropped the ball with their 7nm, we have no idea when it's coming and whether the Xe-HP will be even the same. It is also a claim and not a reality, yet.

That Xe SG1 4 Xe GPUs on a passively cooled card looks like a winner, too. Tencent agrees.

That's just 4 Tiger Lake low power 96EU chips, the reason why it's a winner because it's high density low power transcode pipeline, nothing to do with it being a phenomenal GPU. And frankly, being obtuse, it was likely a custom design that Intel is giving away at rock bottom just so they can start getting people to use the darn things because god forbid no one else is touching Xe yet.