Sources @Bionic_squash say Intel Arrow Lake’s iGPU is based on an improved version of the Xe-LPG architecture – Xe-LPG+ – rather than the previously reported Xe²-LPG, but the new iGPU will indeed feature a new generation of media engine.
Previously, an Intel engineer leaked a roadmap suggesting that the iGPUs in both Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake will use a similar Xe-LPG architecture.
- Xe – Alchemist GPU
- Xe2 – Battlemage GPU
- Xe3 – Celetistal GPU
Intel’s Meteor Lake, which is planned to be launched later this year, will feature Xe-LPG architecture cores, built on TSMC’s 5nm process, up to 128EU, up to 2.1GHz, with compute performance of over 4 TFLOPs, and support for DirectX 12 Ultimate and XeSS technologies.
In addition, this series of processors will have a new Adamantine L4 cache, which will bring a big boost to core performance, even theoretically close to RTX 3050, but in practice, I’m afraid it’s difficult. Comparatively, Arrow Lake may be upgraded to 192 EU, which is expected to bring some improvement in graphics.
As the successor to the Xe Alchemist iGPU, if it evolves normally, the 15th generation Core Lunar Lake may be the first to use the Battlemage GPU based on the Xe2 LPG architecture, while the Xe3 LPG on the 16th generation Core Panther Lake is expected to use the new Celestial GPU.
Of course, these successors will take years to launch, so, for now, we’ll look forward to seeing how the first-generation Xe GPUs in Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake perform, and hope it doesn’t disappoint.
