Internal Intel docs reveal 500-watt Xe GPU

The first time we heard Intel talking about GPU design in the high performance market it was this huge monster with up to 8 Chiclets per substrate a large unified cache that they called Rambo cash and a configuration with up to 16 Chiclets where the HBM memory resides that was during the Ponte Vecchio presentation at Intel's HPC conference last year in November after that there was a moment of silence until we heard about the DG 1 a 96 execution unit discrete chip that Intel showed off to make sure we knew they were still around for the mainstream market this tiny little chip was alright if a little underwhelming but its use as a tool for developers is good it means once Intel comes to market with their GPU design not everything will be broken so we heard about the data center tech and the low-end slash entry tech but what about What's in between the enthusiasts and the mid-range. So digital trends received a slide that's apparently our first check out the generation of Intel xyg views codenamed the Arctic sound let's take a glance at it so this is the slide as you can see it is split into reference validation platform and software development vehicles just so you know the DG one is a software development vehicle which means this category will likely be out of reach moving on to the number of cards column these are the amounts of variants expected for Arctic sound and now for the juicy bits the tiles the tiles should be what Intel calls a single chip 'let for its GPUs in both cases SVD or RVD we go from 1 to 2 to 4 tiles the one tile would be similar to the DG one except with its 128 execution units remember DG 1 has 96 out of the 128 active that means the two tile version would have 256 execution units and the four tiles 512 with each use containing about 8 let's call them cores that would be anywhere from 1020 four cores for one tile to 4096 for four tiles that's pretty insane what's also insane although maybe not that surprising from Intelli nowadays is the TDP for 4 tiles it would apparently draw up to 500 watts the two tail version would be less 300 watts and a single tile 75 to 150 probably 75 watts for the 96 execution unit version and 150 watts for 128 the curious thing is that this 4 tile GPU would need an input voltage of 48 volts to execute this at least in cell seems to know that this is an issue as you can see here they noted that it would pose some challenges in yellow or not be supported in red as for the thermal which is also marked in red for SDV it's probably just because it wasn't designed yet the rest of the chart is a bit of a three since the language used it doesn't really ring any bells except for a sawtooth pass which is a family of Intel server motherboards the rest would require some inside knowledge so it's like Intel goes hard on all fronts but with power draw like that the performance better be absolutely insane.

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