Wednesday, May 12th 2021
Intel Xe HP "Arctic Sound" 1T and 2T Cards Pictured
Intel has been extensively teasing its Xe HP scalable compute architecture for some time now, and Igor's Lab has an exclusive look at GPU compute cards based on the Xe HP silicon. We know from older reports that Intel's Xe HP compute accelerator packages come in three essential variants—1 tile, 2 tiles, and 4 tiles. A "tile" here is an independent GPU accelerator die. Each of these tiles has 512 execution units, which convert to 4,096 programmable shaders. The single-tile card is a compact, half-height card capable of 1U and 2U chassis. According to Igor's Lab, it comes with 16 GB of HBM2E memory with 716 GB/s memory bandwidth, and the single tile has 384 out of 512 EUs enabled (3,072 shaders). The card also has a typical board power of just 150 W.
The Arctic Sound 2T card is an interesting contraption. A much larger 2-slot card of length easily above 28 cm, and a workstation spacer, the 2T card uses a 2-tile variant of the Xe HP package, but each of the two tiles only has 480 out of 512 EUs enabled. This works out to 7,680 shaders. The dual-chiplet MCM uses 32 GB of HBM2E memory (16 GB per tile), and a typical board power of 300 W. A single 4+4 pin EPS connector, capable of up to 225 W, is used to power the card.
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Igor's Lab
The Arctic Sound 2T card is an interesting contraption. A much larger 2-slot card of length easily above 28 cm, and a workstation spacer, the 2T card uses a 2-tile variant of the Xe HP package, but each of the two tiles only has 480 out of 512 EUs enabled. This works out to 7,680 shaders. The dual-chiplet MCM uses 32 GB of HBM2E memory (16 GB per tile), and a typical board power of 300 W. A single 4+4 pin EPS connector, capable of up to 225 W, is used to power the card.
33 Comments on Intel Xe HP "Arctic Sound" 1T and 2T Cards Pictured
Why not use PCI-E 8 pin, its more prevalent on PSUs?
For consumer applications ... well, the HHHL card is 150W. Most GPU makers struggle to cool 75W cards silently with dual-slot HHHL coolers. There have been higher rated ones (up to 125W IIRC) in that form factor, but that's really pushing things. But this isn't coming to the consumer market. Period.
Does it run Crysis?
I hope so because since no one can get their shit together I will buy one if I have to.
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Server accelerators in general do not have fans and rely on high static chassis forced airflow.
Those accelerators are generally 150-450w...
While it is "passive" in the sense it doesn't have a dedicated fan you aren't cooling that in a SFF without a waterblock.
When determining if something needs a fan, if its >15w it needs a fan. The baby gpu uses 150w, and the biggone uses 300w.
They are wired differently.
Care to explain?
STILL No performance metric. We already know for many years that Intel can make overpriced, non-competitive GPU designs. That they abandon shortly after. All I am seeing here is a continuation and 'making it scalable' of their eternal IGP. So yay, you have lots of EUs now and you need pricy memory to feed it. It is nowhere near the level of refinement of the competition. All I smell here is something akin to company XYZ coming out with their own version of an ARM soc.
The fact that Raja straight up jumped on four tiles as a starting point speaks volumes. It smells like that strange junkyard CPU range Intel is trying with four dies glued together. A slight hint of bullshit coupled with smoke from electrical fires and some of Raja's hair. Their 2T is already running on below optimal clocks and 4T will be even worse if they plan on burning less than 1KW per unit.
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