Intel Xe DG1 video card for OEMs will not work with AMD processors
Intel’s recently announced Xe video card with DG1 GPU will not work with AMD CPUs. The video cards, which are exclusively available for OEMs, require a special uefi bios, according to Intel, that only works with recent Intel processors.
An Intel spokesperson told Legit Reviews that the Xe DG1 graphics card is intended for pre-built systems with 9th-generation Coffee Lake-S and 10th-generation Comet Lake-S CPUs, when paired with a B460, H410, B365 or H310C chipset. “These motherboards require a special bios that supports the Intel Iris Xe, so the cards won’t be compatible with other systems,” the company said.
The video cards will only be available for OEMs, but due to these restrictions, prebuilt computers with AMD CPU and Intel Xe GPU will not appear. Support for the upcoming Intel Rocket Lake desktop processors is also not mentioned, but those chips optionally already contain an integrated Xe-gpu and will not be available until later this quarter.
Intel announced its Intel Xe graphics card for desktops on Tuesday. The video card is equipped with 80 execution units and 4GB of video memory. The video card is produced on Intel’s 10nm process and is comparable to the Xe GPUs integrated in Intel Tiger Lake laptop processors.
The separate Xe video card would be produced by ASUS and Colorful, according to Intel’s website. In addition, only ASUS was named as a manufacturing partner, but Colorful was mentioned in the metadata of the announcement page. The image shown of a Xe video card with fans also shows great similarities with the company’s RTX 2060 BattleAx, VideoCardz also writes.
Colorful went against this on Wednesday, however. The company reports on Facebook that it is not involved in the production of Intel Iris Xe video cards. “Recently, there have been rumors on media platforms falsely reporting that Colorful Iris is releasing Xe desktop graphics cards for OEMs. Colorful would like to clarify that these rumors are false and the information and content derived from them are unfounded,” the company said.
ASUS’s Intel Iris Xe desktop graphics card (left) and “Colorful”