Air-cooled GPU for inference workloads
Intel has provided more details about its upcoming AI data center GPU, codenamed Crescent Island.
The chip will be based on Intel's Xe3P GPU architecture, the company said in a Computex announcement attended by DCD.
– Sebastian Moss
Crescent Island will be a PCI Express add-in card with a 350W TDP, supporting air cooling. Unlike the latest Nvidia and AMD hardware, which use increasingly supply-limited GDDR or HBM memory, the chip uses LPDDR5X.
LPDDR5X has lower bandwidth than HBM.
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