News Intel "Xe4" and AMD "GFX13" codenames surface for next-gen 'Druid' GPUs

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Patch notes and commits have revealed Xe4 (Druid) and GFX13 (successor to RDNA 4) as the internal codenames for upcoming GPU products from Intel and AMD.

Intel "Xe4" and AMD "GFX13" codenames surface for next-gen 'Druid' GPUs : Read more

 

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Nvidia has taken a mixed approach with its products. Volta and Turing were separate architectures for data centers and consumers. Ampere combined the two foundations, but with the rise of generative AI, Nvidia dissected the two again with Hopper and Ada Lovelace. Blackwell now serves as the unified backbone of these two segments.

You're reading too much into their code names. The 100-series chips are always different than the 10n chips, found in client graphics cards.

One way to see this is in their respective CUDA Capabilities. First, you need to see which capability a given GPU has:

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus
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Then, check the specs of that capability:

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c...chnical-specifications-per-compute-capability
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There, you can see how a server GPU like A100 (capability 8.0) supports 32 resident blocks, 64 warps, and 164 KB of shared memory per SM, while the client Ampere models (capability 8.6) support only 16 resident blocks, 48 warps, and 100 KB. That's in spite of how they're both called "Ampere".

Similar differences exist between the B100/B200/B300 (capability 10.0) and GB10n (capability 12.0) Blackwells. It sounds like the client Blackwells should be better (higher capability number, right?), but it really just means they're newer.