Intel has launched inner efficiency benchmarks for its new Ponte Vecchio information middle GPU, which is alleged to be considerably quicker than the Nvidia A100, the present market chief.

At Scorching Chips 34, Intel introduced that Ponte Vecchio delivers 52 teraflops of FP32 and FP64 efficiency, upwards of two.5x the efficiency achieved by the A100. 

As reported by our sister web site Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab), Intel additionally says its new GPU outstrips the A100 throughout a variety of extra benchmarks, together with a 2x efficiency benefit in miniBUDE and 1.5x in ExaSMR.

Intel Ponte Vecchio

The excessive efficiency computing (HPC) market has lengthy been of nice strategic significance to Intel. Nonetheless, regardless of the historic dominance of its Xeon server processors within the area, there’s proof to counsel the corporate’s lead is slipping.

Solely one of many world’s prime ten strongest supercomputers at the moment are powered by Intel, in accordance with the newest High500 rankings, with AMD and Arm-based chips scrapping it out on the prime. And AMD is making inroads additional down the listing, too.

In an effort to broaden its presence within the HPC market, Intel unveiled its first ever try at a high-performance GPU designed for AI and HPC purposes, Ponte Vecchio, in 2021.

The GPU is available in three varieties: OCP accelerator module (OAM), x4 Subsystem with Xe Hyperlinks and x4 Subsystem with Xe hyperlinks atop a 2S Sapphire Rapids platform.

In its OAM kind issue, Ponte Vecchio packs 128 Xe Cores, 128 ray tracing models, 64MB L1 cache, 408MB L2 cache and eight Xe-HPC GPUs.

When finally launched, Intel’s information middle GPU will compete straight with Nvidia’s H100 GPU (successor to the A100) and AMD’s Intuition MI300 APU. If Intel’s benchmarks are right, its GPU will compete on comparatively even phrases with the H100. Nonetheless, AMD’s next-generation providing – which blends CDNA three GPU cores with Zen four CPU cores – is anticipated to ship a dramatic leap in efficiency, particularly throughout AI coaching workloads.

As famous by The Register, it’s additionally potential that additional delays within the launch of Ponte Vecchio will imply its lifespan is minimize quick by the arrival of its successor, Rialto Bridge, which is about to start sampling subsequent yr.

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