https://liliputing.com/2020/10/is-this-the-first-laptop-with-intel-dg1-discre... Smoke and Mirrors Alert !!!! The next wave of Intel "progress" is breaking as we speak.
According to the project page for the Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TP470EZ, the system features the “First Intel Discrete Graphics.”
That vague language is similar to the wording we normally see when a company announces a laptop that will feature an as-yet-unannounced CPU or GPU. But while we usually see things like “latest Intel processor” or “next-gen AMD CPU,” this time Asus is using “first” as a descriptor.
Right now it is COMPLETELY UNCLEAR as to what Intel is attempting to advertise. This falls in line with recent Intel Marketing efforts, leaving things totally in the dark and making big vague claims about "first' and "next-gen" and "latest".
This new thing may range from a Tiger Lake laptop implementation to a 10nm discrete GPU tagged on to a existing Intel mainstream 14nm laptop chipset.
In either case it deserves a Smoke and Mirrors Alert, loud alarm horn and red flashing lights ......
It is Intel, so who really knows what the heck it really is ????
As the buyer of this thing you know two items going in, first that there is a REASON Intel won't tell you what it really is up front, and second that you are not going to like the mundane reality that lies behind all the splash and glitz .......
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https://wccftech.com/asus-vivobook-flip-flip-14-unveiled-first-intels-dg1-dis... The GPU specifically is referred to as the Intel Iris Xe Max as identified over at ASUS's website by Momomo_US. Benchmarks of the Intel Iris Xe Max graphics chip appeared a few days ago at the Compubench database (via TUM_APISAK) which shows the Max chip slightly ahead of the standard Iris Xe GPU featured on the Tiger Lake CPUs as integrated graphics. The chip also leaked in the SiS ofware Sandra database along with a range of benchmark numbers........ whups, a whole bunch of yellow splash and glitz over some "slightly ahead of Tiger Lake CPUs", huh? You know, the same Tiger Lake CPUs that are slightly behind AMD APU GPUs at the moment ......
Sounds a bit "equivalent" doesn't it ???
All of Intel 10nm shares a common theme ---- it was delayed 5 years and three generations while Intel struggled mightily to get it to work at all ---- and that long delay left a mark on all Intel 10nm products.
They are all "a day late and a dollar short" today in 2020-2021 when they finally get introduced.
Even 2 years ago they would have been great stuff, but not today ......
What is the real current great stuff is a six core TSMC 5nm processor that is shipping today (in Apple iPads) .......Look at the 5nm tidal waves coming in the next six months, they will wash all relevance away from the Intel's little 10nm sandcastle (what little relevance it actually has, anyway).