Intel showcases their Xe graphics running Battlefield V running at 1080p 30 FPS

Ryan Shrout, Intel’s Chief Performance Strategist, has released a video which showcases the performance of the Xe graphics chip inside of a “prototype Tiger Lake” system.  

The video showcases the company’s Tiger Lake chip playing Battlefield V at 1080p High settings with framerates of over 30 FPS, highlighting performance levels which appear to exceed the capabilities of the Vega-based graphics chip inside of AMD’s Ryzen 4000 series of graphics processors. 

What must be noted is that this is a single game and that this showcase was using a prototype system with “early drivers”. This means that performance could improve as their drivers mature, but also that Intel could be using a cherry-picked game to Tiger Lake architecture look most appealing. We will need to wait for 3rd party testing to draw any firm conclusions. 

Tiger Lake is due to release onto the notebook market later this year, offering users powerful Xe integrated graphics and Intel’s new “Willow Cove” CPU cores. These CPU/GPU advancements will yield Intel significant performance boosts over their existing Skylake-based and Ice Lake-based mobile processors, at least in terms of IPC. 

Below is what Ryan Shrout had to say about Tiger Lake. 

  Perks of the job! Took a prototype Tiger Lake system for a spin on Battlefield V to stretch its legs. Impressive thin and light gaming perf with Xe graphics! Early drivers/sw, but it’s the first time I’ve seen this game run like this on integrated gfx. More later this year!