When Intel launched its entry-level Iris Xe DG1 graphics playing cards for desktop PCs early in 2021, it solely positioned them for entry-level Intel-based PCs from system integrators. It even invented methods to forestall their set up into methods based mostly on different platforms. Nonetheless, because the Iris Xe DG1 desktop boards weren’t obtainable individually, that limitation was not strictly vital; moreover, it seems that it’s doable to make Intel’s Iris Xe graphics card work on an AMD system.
An fanatic from the Chiphell (opens in new tab) neighborhood has obtained an Intel Iris Xe DG1 graphics card and made it work with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G on an AMD X570-based system. Formally, Intel’s DG1 is barely suitable with PCs powered by the corporate’s Ninth- and Tenth-Gen Core processors on motherboards powered by its B460, H410, B365, and H310C chipset are in line with its graphics card. Moreover, these machines should characteristic a specific BIOS to work with DG1. However that particular BIOS is barely wanted in addition the system up when the board serves as the first graphics adapter.
It’s nonetheless doable to make use of Intel’s DG1 on an ‘incompatible’ platform when put in subsequent to a different graphics processor. It’s exactly what the fanatic did: he put in his Iris Xe DG1 right into a system with a built-in Radeon RX Vega GPU after which put in an acceptable Intel driver. On the {hardware} facet of issues, he solely wanted to show off CSM (compatibility assist module in a bid to disable Legacy Mode on the motherboard and allow the total UEFI Mode) and activate Resize BAR. He wanted some tweaks to run the Intel GPU subsequent to an AMD GPU correctly underneath Linux, however every part labored even underneath this working system.
A sensible reader would ask why to put in Intel’s Iris Xe DG1 graphics card into an AMD Ryzen system, particularly one with its personal built-in graphics adapter. The reply is the world-class media processing capabilities of Intel’s GPUs far exceed these of AMD’s GPUs. Not solely does Intel’s DG1 assist 8Kp60 AV1 decoding, nevertheless it additionally processes mainstream video with higher high quality.
Dashing to a web-based retailer to get an Intel Iris Xe DG1 card for higher media processing capabilities might not make sense for everybody. Intel’s Arc Alchemist A380 desktop boards are already right here, and they don’t appear to have any constraints. However a minimum of it has now been confirmed that Intel’s previous-generation desktop discrete GPUs can work with AMD’s platform.
