Looks like a Xeon, but is more likely an Intel Xe GPU to be released in 2021 and is suitable for "Battlefield and B-Floating," as the Intel Odyssey team and Intel Chief Architect Raja Koduri teased on Twitter Uses AA batteries for scale.

The LGA package configuration is not the norm, at least not for AMD or Nvidia graphics chips; judging by Raja Koduri's reference to this chip as a "baap of all," this is not the Intel India team's term used to refer to the Intel Xe HP architecture, which certainly looks a lot like Intel's prototype GPU.

Intel divides the Intel Xe architecture into three segments: LP, HP, and HPC. Each plays a slightly different role in the Intel Xe GPU lineup: Xe LP meets entry-level demand, Xe HP offers professional-grade and enthusiast graphics, and Xe HPC is built with supercomputer smarts in mind. Xe HPC is built with supercomputer smarts in mind.

Intel's intentions for the Xe HP architecture with respect to gaming are not yet clear; Koduri's tweet hinted at the company's gaming ambitions with Xe-HP. However, a few tweets later, Koduri clarified that the chips in the image were intended for data centers. Perhaps the "battle fielding" was a bit of a red herring for Intel's cloud graphics aspirations.

The bfloat16 floating-point format is commonly used in AI inference, especially by Intel in its line of machine learning accelerators.

The Xe-LP DG1 graphics card announced at CES 2020 looks to be the best bet for PC gaming. The chip doesn't wow us with gaming performance, with only 96 execution units (EU), it reportedly had a Warframe benchmark of around 30 fps at low 1080p resolution at the time. The card did not represent the final gaming performance of the Intel Xe LP architecture, but needless to say, we were not convinced that Intel Xe LP would soon be included in high-end gaming PCs.

According to the leaked slides, the Xe HP will be offered in a much wider range of configurations, from 128 EU to a whopping 512 EU. It will have up to "tens of billions of transistors" and be capable of "tens of thousands of ops/clk"; the TitanRTX has 18.6 billion transistors, but there is more to a GPU's performance than its size.

Currently, it seems unlikely that larger GPUs will make it into gaming PCs, at least not anytime soon; judging from Koduri's comments, Intel's focus for gaming is on the widely adopted integrated graphics segment.

Intel Xe is scheduled for release this year; another cryptic tweet from Koduri initially suggested a June launch, but given the remote access to the lab referenced in the latest tweet above, that is no longer a possibility. At least one Intel Xe product has been confirmed for release mid-year: the Intel Tiger Lake. These chips will feature 96EUs of 12th generation (Xe) graphics and will be available in notebooks in the very near future.

And don't hold your breath for LGA GPUs as the Intel Xe release date approaches. It is probably just a sample quirk for convenience during development. However,