And even if you do possess a system that ticks all of those boxes, these motherboards require a special BIOS that supports Intel Iris Xe. The DG1 can only be made to operate when paired with 9th Gen (Coffee Lake-S) and 10th Gen (Comet Lake-S) Intel Core desktop processors, as well as Intel B460, H410, B365, and H310C chipset-based motherboards. And like AMD's latest RX 6500 XT graphics card, the DG1 cards are only capable of interfacing at PCIe 4.0 x4 speeds.īeyond these performance and efficiency considerations, actual system compatibility of Intel's DG1 (and Gunnir's solution) is the elephant in the room that will put off most users who might want an Intel discrete graphics card in their system, at least until the actual high-performance Intel Arc Alchemist family of GPUs is launched in the coming months. Another element of note relates to power consumption: while AMD's RX 550 is rated for a 50W TDP, the Intel DG1 products launched by Gunnir are all rated for 21W PL1 (Power Limit 1) or 41W PL2. The DG1 operates with a 4GB LPDDR4x memory pool, owing to its integrated graphics roots. Part of the reason for this performance difference lies in the graphics memory subsystem. The benchmarks were enough to put in on-par ( or slightly behind) the performance of AMD's RX 550 4 GB. When we benchmarked Intel's DG1, we described it as the "little engine that couldn't" due to its low performance capabilities. Since DG1 was intended more as an integrated graphics solution meant to be distributed in mobile form-factors, performance of these Intel graphics cards isn't the best.
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