Asus DG1 (Intel Xe-LP) tested, performs like an AMD Radeon HD 7850 / Radeon RX 550

We can already know the performance of Intel's first dedicated graphics for the 'gaming' market, we are talking about the Asus DG1 (Intel DG1), although this model uses a modest Intel Xe-LP graphics chip, a chip for laptops that have been adapted to be used on desktop computers.

This graph has inside it a total of 80 Execution Units (vs 96 of the Intel Xe MAX) that gives us a total of 640 cores at a frequency that is still unknown, along with  4 GB of RAM memory LPDDR4X @ 4266 MHz that, combined with a 128-bit memory interface, gives us a bandwidth of just  68 GB / s  with a TDP of  30W, so obviously, gaming, very gaming, not that it is, but it is ideal to flatten the way to the software level of its older sisters.

As shown, in the Basemark GPU 1.2 benchmarking software, under the Vulkan API, the Asus DG1 showed a performance of 17289 points, which translates to being slightly slower than an AMD Radeon HD 7850 (17349 points with TDP 130W) or a much more recent AMD Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 (17619 points with 50W TDP), and it could not be considered a bad performance, since we are talking about 80 EUs when the top-of-the-range Intel DG2 gaming model will offer 512 EUs (x6.4 times more cores) and a GDDR6 memory instead of LPDDR4X.