Intel’s dGPU adventures—Xe

In his own inimitable way, Intel’s Raja Koduri lit up the web this week with his Twitter reveal of a full die shot of the 2-tile, 7-nm Intel Xe HPC GPU. The giant package has 16 clusters with 128 EUs, 1024 EUs total, and 8192 cores. It is alleged to be based on the Intel Graphics 12.5 architecture (revealed in January 2020 during Intel Architecture day). It will be clocked at 1290 MHz, potentially generating 21.1 TFLOPs—twice that of a Sony PS5. The TDP of the Iris Xe discrete add-in card is 30 W. Xe HPC ready for power on!