Raja Koduri: 200W to 225W is the best power consumption for graphics cards
At the recent Intel ConnectiON conference held in Mumbai, India, Raja Koduri, the current executive vice president of Intel Corporation, senior vice president, and general manager of the Accelerated Computing System and Graphics (AXG) division, accepted an interview with Gadgets360 and talked about many topics about Intel GPUs.
One of the design focuses of Meteor Lake with Intel 4 is the GPU, Raja Koduri said. It adopts a Tile design, and there will be four different modules: computing module, SOC module, I/O module, and GPU module. These modules can be manufactured using other process nodes, stacked, and interconnected using EMIB technology and Foveros packaging technology. Thanks to the new design and process, it is expected that there will be a huge leap in integrated graphics performance in 2024.
Nowadays, the power consumption of graphics cards is getting higher and higher, making it normal for players to buy high-power power supplies. Raja Koduri said that performance per watt, that is, providing stronger performance with lower power consumption is Intel’s top priority. Improving performance at higher power consumption reduces market applicability, and the optimal power consumption range is 200W to 225W. This means that the graphics card only needs two 8Pin external power supply interfaces, and even some models only need one.
At present, Intel has released a variety of Intel Arc brand Alchemist (DG2) discrete graphics cards, but only A770/A750/A380 on the desktop platform. This will be a graphics card with a power consumption of less than 200W and equipped with an ACM-G10 chip, which will be released within the year as planned.
Regarding the development roadmap of the Xe architecture, Raja Koduri confirmed that the plan has not changed for the time being. It was previously reported that most members of the development team of Intel’s AXG department have been transferred to the development of the second-generation product Battlemage. At the same time, the early driver and software stack work are also in progress, and even individual members have started the preliminary work of the third-generation product Celestial.
