News Intel Axes Data Center GPU Max 1350, Preps Max 1450 For 'Different Markets'

[Admin]

Intel reshuffles the company's Data Center GPU Max (Ponte Vecchio) series of compute GPUs.

Intel Axes Data Center GPU Max 1350, Preps Max 1450 For 'Different Markets' : Read more

 

[TerryLaze]

Intel reshuffles the company's Data Center GPU Max (Ponte Vecchio) series of compute GPUs.

Intel Axes Data Center GPU Max 1350, Preps Max 1450 For 'Different Markets' : Read more

Why didn't you focus on this part?!
Potentially releasing them for home/gaming market?

Rounding out our product portfolio, we will introduce the Data Center GPU Max 1100 SKU, which is a 300W PCIe card (Gen5) for broad market deployments," an Intel spokesperson told Tom's Hardware.

 

[jp7189]

Why didn't you focus on this part?!
Potentially releasing them for home/gaming market?

Home/Gaming? 0% chance of that happening. It literally has "Data Center" in the name, and it has 48GB HBM2e onboard putting it way outside the price point of "home" use.

 

[TerryLaze]

Home/Gaming? 0% chance of that happening. It literally has "Data Center" in the name, and it has 48GB HBM2e onboard putting it way outside the price point of "home" use.

But then what does broad market deployments mean?!
Data center is not a broad market, it's a very narrow market and one that would want to have even bigger cards and not cut-down ones.

 

[bit_user]

I'm surprised they're expecting to sell any, as I'd expect pricing to be fairly uncompetitive for their performance levels. I expect most customers will be interested mainly in using them as software development vehicles. Intel's support for OpenCL is traditionally very good, so anyone looking for a fast, conformant OpenCL accelerator might also be interested.

I wonder if Nvidia is having trouble filling all the demand for its H100, and maybe Intel is trying to capitalize on that.

 

[bit_user]

But then what does broad market deployments mean?!

China, as the article explained.

 

[bit_user]

Home/Gaming? 0% chance of that happening. It literally has "Data Center" in the name, and it has 48GB HBM2e onboard putting it way outside the price point of "home" use.

Not just the HBM, but all the chiplets! It's nuts! Here's the Hot Chips presentation:

Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: Graphics (Intel, AMD, Google, Xilinx)

www.anandtech.com

As big an issue as the price would be, it's also not even a functionally-complete GPU. We're told it actually has ray tracing hardware, but lacks rasterization and a display controller.

 

[jp7189]

But then what does broad market deployments mean?!
Data center is not a broad market, it's a very narrow market and one that would want to have even bigger cards and not cut-down ones.

It's PCIe based vs SXM based. PCIe has a much broader market as it can be used with standard chassis/motherboards.