Final week, Raja Koduri went to Twitter to elucidate Intel’s intent to discontinue the concentrate on Intel Xe-HP and implement that know-how to the newer Intel Xe-HPG GPUs, a more moderen and extra targeted ecosystem that they’ve a five-year plan of progress for developments in AI, gaming and visible cloud-based know-how, and better optimization and efficiency. This was shocking to a big viewers because of the period of time spent on discussing Intel Xe-HP publicly.
Intel Focuses Its Xe-HPG At The Gaming & Visible Cloud / AI Inference GPU Phase After Xe-HP’s Cancellation
Intel’s Xe-HP GPU was initially introduced through the center of 2020, marketed as a “multi-tile graphics collection designed for information facilities, with the primary objective as media super-computer accelerators.” Intel has even gone so far as creating three separate choices with between “1 to 4 tiles.” It should now assist Intel for using the Intel Xe-HPs for their very own in-house cloud servers.
We leveraged Xe HP to construct developer ecosystem for HPC, AI and Visible cloud. It’s getting used on-site at Argonne and different clients.
We’ll have Xe HPG based mostly information heart merchandise for visible cloud/AI Inference and Xe HPC based mostly merchandise for HPC/AI Coaching @intelgraphics pic.twitter.com/iHZa2dMLqd— Raja Koduri (@Rajaontheedge) October 30, 2023
Koduri went on to additional clarify that Xe-HP GPU would assist develop the “ecosystem for Ponte Vecchio’s structure.” So far as product strains go, the Xe-HPG strains will substitute Xe-HP, including “AI interference and visible cloud” know-how, which was the unique intent of Xe-HP.
It’s speculated that, because of the focus of Intel Xe-HPG on media by way of analytics, processing, immersion, and cloud know-how, corresponding to cloud gaming and cloud graphics, that Intel is starting to compete with GeForce NOW, Google Stadia, or Amazon Luna.
What’s attention-grabbing to notice, nevertheless, is the utilization of media conversion servers/video content material suppliers. Intel was one of many largest {hardware} suppliers for the final World Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. Intel’s Xeon servers have been the first utilization to assist stream an unbelievable 8K 60fps HDR video that was transferred and carried out on to the cloud to televisions in every single place. Despite the fact that a big group of shoppers was unable to entry the complete decision capabilities of the sign, the truth that this know-how is now obtainable is proof that we’ve got developed but once more to what’s doable.
Lastly, Koduri additionally mentioned Intel Xe-HPG is deliberate to help high-end purposes corresponding to 3DS Max, extending their Xe-HPG to the high-end workstation sections. It may very well be implied sooner or later that the Xe-HPG microarchitecture will probably be accessible for to as much as three completely different markets, simply as the identical as their rivals NVIDIA and AMD with their Ampere and RDNA2 architectures, respectably.
GPU Household | Intel Xe-LP (1st Gen) | Intel Xe-HPG (1st Gen) | Intel Xe-HP (1st Gen) | Intel Xe-HP (2nd Gen) | Intel Xe-HPC (1st Gen) |
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GPU Phase | Entry-Degree (Built-in + Discrete) | Mainstream / Excessive-Finish Gaming (Discrete) | Datacenter & Workstation | Datacenter & Workstation | Excessive Efficiency Computing |
GPU Gen | Gen 12 | Gen 12 | Gen 12 | Gen 13 | Gen 12 |
Course of Node | Intel 7 | TSMC 6nm | Intel 7 | TBA | Intel 7 (Base Tile) TSMC 5nm (Compute Tile) TSMC 7nm (Xe Hyperlink Tile) |
GPU Merchandise | Tiger Lake DG1/SG1 Playing cards | ARC Alchemist GPUs | Arctic Sound | Jupiter Sound | Ponte Vecchio |
Specs / Design | 96 EUs / 1 Tile /1 GPU | 512 EUs / 1 Tile / 1 GPU | 2048 EUs / 4 Tiles Per GPU | TBA | 8192 EUs / 16 Tiles per GPU |
Reminiscence Subsystem | LPDDR4/GDDR6 | GDDR6 | HBM2e | TBA | HBM2e |
Launch | 2020 | 2023 | 2023? | 2023? | 2023 |