Intel has announced that partners have released the first Iris Xe desktop PC graphics cards. Manufacturing partners include Asus and Colorful but are only going to be available for OEMs and systems integrators who are expected to use these in mainstream and business PCs. These PCIe 4.0 cards are based upon the Xe-LP architecture, like the iGPUs in the Tiger Lake family, and are optimised for economy and efficiency. Intel isn't going to address the PC gaming market until Xe-HPG arrives.
According to Intel the new graphics cards
"offer a compelling upgrade to existing options in the market segment". It reasons that these 25-30W GPUs with 80 EUs and 4GB on board offer an attractive array of outputs, hardware video decode and encode acceleration, including AV1 decode support, Adaptive Sync, Display HDR support, and artificial intelligence capabilities thanks to DP4a deep-learning inference acceleration.