News Intel Shows Conceptual 2035 Xe Graphics Cards, Provides Updates

[PaulAlcorn]

Intel announced its newest update to the Graphics Command Center and showed off conceptual renders of futuristic GPUs.

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[southernshark]

2035 Intel releases 7nm graphics cards....

Most of those designs look like graphics cards released today. 2035 doesn't seem very original.

 

[hotaru251]

Prometheus & sirius are best.

andromeda looks like....a completely translucent gpu?

oblivion looks nice, but its thermals would suck ;|

similar for gemini.
that could be done by making a magnetic fan thats swappable...but again its not actually doing job of a fan and would have awful thermals.

 

[Blas]

Andromeda, Gemini, Sirius... I guess Polaris and Vega were aleady taken...

 

[thegriff]

Are these going to come out around the same time as Navi graphics. (OK, just a dig at AMD dragging it on forever, kinda like Intel dragging on 10nm process forever)

 

[cryoburner]

Most of those designs look like graphics cards released today.

That is just what I was going to say. This concept art doesn't show much imagination. Graphics cards still connecting via a PCIe x16 slot, in pretty much the exact same form factor they have today? And RGB is still in style? Prometheus looks like it could be a card getting released this year. Sirius and Andromeda are a lot more vague about how they are actually intended to dissipate heat. Are they solid blocks of efficient crystal circuitry, perhaps? That still connect to a PCIe slot for some reason, since apparently motherboards don't have access to the same tech? Sirius even has its connector on the wrong side. Yes, I am being way too critical. : P

In any case, something tells me graphics cards in 2035 might be rather different from this. Unless there are some massive breakthroughs in chip design that bring far more efficiency, performance gains are going to continue to slow down. To gain much more performance, chips may need to get bigger, draw more power, and become more expensive, and it's questionable how practical that would be for consumer products. It's possible that upgradable graphics cards as we know them might even get phased out, in favor of APUs containing the CPU, GPU and memory all in one chip, or at least on the same board, as we see with consoles and laptops. If the performance gains slow enough, people may not be upgrading components often enough to support a market of dedicated cards like these.

 

[ElectrO_90]

Xe is based on AMD leasing its technologies to them, to which was their biggest mistake.
Intel has enough money to invest in this and then over take AMD and Nvidia, in the long run (as long as they learn how to die shrink)

 

[Giroro]

Based on the last 20 years of Graphics card design progression:
A single GPU in 2035 will use approximately 120 Watts of power, occupy between 4 and 6 PCI slots, contain a minimum of 5 fans, be 22 inches long. and be built on a 5nm+++++ process.
The backplate will be accomponied by 2 'side plates' for stability, but they will do nothing to help dissipate heat, even though they easily could.

 

[JQB45]

Computers in the future will simply be terminals connected to a vast network of quantum computers I agree that SOCs are more likely to take over then massive discrete graphics cards. PCIe and DDR standards will be replaced with new standards we haven't heard of yet. Everyone in the developed world will have a minimum of 1GBps wireless satellite internet. x86-64 processors will loose their 16 and 32 bit capabilities if x86-64 is even a viable technology in 2035. This will make a lot of room available to focus on the core 64bit technology.

And since cellphones are computers they will also see technological leaps as well, and will likely all be satelite phones, ground based towers may finally disappear.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Xe is based on AMD leasing its technologies to them, to which was their biggest mistake.

Did that ever actually happen? It was a rumored, but then IIRC all that ended up happening is that AMD just sold them finished GPU dies, rather than license the GPU IP to Intel for them to develop their own.

 

[jimmysmitty]

2035 Intel releases 7nm graphics cards....

Most of those designs look like graphics cards released today. 2035 doesn't seem very original.

Considering that silicon is being stretched to its limits with 7nm and even further with 5nm we might actually still be on 7nm or 5nm. We might get to a point where we wont be looking at the nm anymore.

We may be able to go further but it will require moving beyond silicon and even then 1nm is probably the limit we will hit with physical materials. We will probably have to look into organic processors beyond that.

Did that ever actually happen? It was a rumored but then IIRC all that ended up happening is that AMD just sold them finished GPU dies, rather than license the GPU IP to Intel for them to develop their own.

I heard similar to what you heard, that they did it to put some Vega chips into Intel CPUs.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/249581-intel-puts-kibosh-reports-will-license-amd-gpu-technology

From what I know Intel has quite a few graphics, I have heard more patents that both AMD and nVidia.

 

[Untamed_Insanity]

The Andromeda looks like the 1. Gen Xbox
Otherwise fancy concept art. Can barely wait for the specifications

 

[TerryLaze]

As an X-men fan I must approve of most of these,nice designs.
Of course no amount of design is going to make me buy one unless it performs well.

 

[TerryLaze]

From what I know Intel has quite a few graphics, I have heard more patents that both AMD and nVidia.

I don't know about that more patents than both AMD and nVidia but yeah, intel started from scratch in the attempt to add an iGPU to a CPU so I'm sure they invented butt loads of things along the way..

 

[jimmysmitty]

I don't know about that more patents than both AMD and nVidia but yeah, intel started from scratch in the attempt to add an iGPU to a CPU so I'm sure they invented butt loads of things along the way..

It was something I have heard. Not sure its true or if it was true at one point in time.