Intel Xe-HPG graphics recommended for Amnesia: Rebirth

In 2021, Intel plans to enter the discrete GPU market with their Xe graphics architecture in the form of Xe-HPG products. With Xe-HPG, Intel plans to compete with RDNA 2 from AMD and Nvidia's Ampere architecture, bringing a third contender to the graphics card market.

Tomorrow (October 20th), Fractional Games plans to release Amnesia: Rebirth, a successor to Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Amnesia: Rebirth is now the first game to list Intel's Xe-HPG graphics within the game's recommended system requirements , long before gamers have access to Intel's discrete graphics architecture.

At this time, it is unknown why Fractional Games has listed Intel's discrete graphics architecture within Amnesia: Reborn's system requirements, be it for publicity or as an error. With Nvidia's GTX 680 and AMD's RX 580 also being recommended, it seems clear that Fractional Games' Intel-HPG recommendation is too high-end for their game, as Intel would be foolish to release discrete graphics cards which are only competitive with AMD's mid-range 2017 offerings.

Intel's Xe-HPG graphics cards are due to arrive in 2021 with GDDR6 memory and support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing . At this time it is unknown how Intel's Xe-HPG graphics cards will perform in modern games, though we hope that it will be enough to compete within the high-end GPU market. More competition will always be a good thing.