Congatec, a supplier of industrial computer modules, has released a picture of its Conga-TS170 module which uses Intel's 6th generation Core Skylake CPU with Intel Gen9 HD Graphics (GT4e) chip allowing us to see the large GPU chip for the first time.

The Congatec Conga-TS170 module is based on Intel's Core i7-6820EQ chip, which is a mobile Skylake-H quad-core CPU with support for Intel Hyper-Threading, packs 8MB of L3 cache and works at 2.8GHz base and 3.5GHz Turbo clock.

This CPU is interesting as it comes with Intel's flagship Gen9 HD Graphics (GT4e) GPU with 72 Execution Units, 128MB of eDRAM and maximum GPU clock of 1150MHz.

The Conga-TS170 module is aimed at graphics intensive applications and thanks to the pictures of the module we are able to check out the GT4e GPU chip for the first time. What we can see from the picture of the module, the GT4e chip is rather large and very long.

The die appears to be somewhere in the range of 210-220mm2 in size and includes 77mm2 eDRAM chip. According to details, over 65 percent of the die is reserved for the IGP and this chip should provide plenty of graphics power.

Hopefully, we will soon see some benchmarks as well which will confirm Intel's earlier statements that the GT4e is up to 50 percent faster in 3D Gaming, compared to the Skylake Iris Pro chip.





Source: Legitreviews.com.