Intel's Upcoming 7nm GPU Reportedly Named 'Ponte Vechhio'

Intel has reportedly revealed that its first standalone GPUs volition be called 'Ponte Vecchio'. Built on the 7nm process node, the Xe GPU is not a standard graphics card designed for gaming or 3D rendering, but is meant for the company'due south upcoming Project Aurora 'exascale' supercomputer that promises to deliver a performance of 1 exaFLOP when delivered in 2021.

Intel says that Ponte Vecchio volition use Foveros packing technology and will use CLX interconnection. According to VideoCardz, the company also recently confirmed that the Xe graphics will come with ultra-loftier enshroud, ultra-high retention bandwidth and high double-precision FP throughput. Intel is also looking to design these GPUs for a number of different purposes, including HPC/Exascale, DL/Training, Cloud GFX, Media Transcore Analytics, Workstation, Gaming, PC Mobile and Ultra Mobile.

Exascale computing, in case y'all're wondering, refers to computing systems capable of at least one exaFLOPS, or a billion billion (i.e. a quintillion) calculations per second. The standard represents a thousandfold increase over the showtime petascale estimator that came into operation in 2008 (one exaflop is a yard petaflops) and, according to researchers, would be considered to be a significant accomplishment in computer applied science, given that i exascale is believed to be the processing power of the human encephalon.

As for the Aurora exascale computer, it is beingness developed by Intel in collaboration with the US Department of Free energy (DoE) at the latter'southward Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois. The device is said to come with 2x Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) and 6x Intel Xe Ponte Vecchio GPUs, and according to Intel, volition exist used to "dramatically accelerate scientific inquiry and discovery" in the country.

Source: https://beebom.com/intel-7nm-gpu-ponte-vechhio/

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