Intel has finally revealed its off-the-shelf graphics card

Intel has revealed the architecture of its discrete graphics solution as well as the first graphics card model called DG1.

Intel has been announcing its entry into the graphics card market for some time, and at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, they revealed specific plans and gave us a first look at their new graphics card.

The Intel DG1 is a small, discrete graphics card (approximately 14 centimeters in length), with one fan and four ports (HDMI + three Display Ports), based on Intel's graphical architecture called Xe. This architecture is divided into three segments: Xe-LP for mobile phones, tablets and laptops, Xe-HP for desktop gaming and Xe-HPC for servers.

The Intel DG1 uses the Xe-LP microarchitecture, but it has not yet been conceived as a product for the public. Instead, the card is intended for developers to familiarize themselves with Intel's architecture so that applications are ready for it once the Xe-LP debuts in combination with the 11th generation of Intel's mobile processors.

So, we'll wait a while to see what kind of reaction Intel's entry into the graphics card market will have with Nvidia and AMD. Card testing at CES has not been allowed, so it is unknown at this time what this potential is. However, given the current state of the graphics card market, the good news is that innovation attempts are happening from a third party.