Intel Teases Intel Xe-HP Accelerator

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/09/2020 08:33 AM | source: twitter | 4 comment(s)

What to make of Xe eh? Raja Koduri, ex AMD RTX, now senior vice president, chief architect, and general manager of Architecture, Graphics, and Software at Intel Corporation has been teasing Intel's upcoming Xe-HP accelerator adjacent it a HC3 XG310 server card.

The HC3 solution was Intel's original Xe-based product utilizing the Xe-LP architecture for low power products. Xe based on Xe-HP products be more perf targeted. The teaser shows a HP based GPU , single-slot passively cooled and a single 8-pin power connector. Raja Koduri presumes developers will begin receiving Xe-HP, Xe-HPG, and Xe-HPC products in 2021.

"Exciting to see these next to each other. Intel's first data center GPU that's in production, between Xe HP GPUs that are sampling to customers. We have ways to go, but an incredible journey so far.

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#5863808 Posted on: 12/09/2020 11:06 AM
I wonder if this could be used in the near future as an raytracing add-in card to offload the RT functions from the GPU. Like we had it in the past with the PhysX accelerators. It would be a short lived technology, but might really benefit the current generation of new GPU models.

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#5863813 Posted on: 12/09/2020 11:20 AM
@Hilbert Hagedoorn "AMD RTX" => "AMD RTG"
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Graph in article is interesting, especially since it mentions all new and shiny HPC while this product is marked as HP.
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I wonder if this could be used in the near future as an raytracing add-in card to offload the RT functions from the GPU. Like we had it in the past with the PhysX accelerators. It would be a short lived technology, but might really benefit the current generation of new GPU models.

One day, far into future, we'll have cards with very small rasterization capabilities which will do wonders for raytracing.

nVidia could have and maybe should have made dedicated raytracing accelerator card that would deliver like 10x performance in comparison to current cards at same price level.
Raytracing in nature has one advantage, and that's multi-GPU scalability. (Same way as it is perfectly scalable across many CPU cores across computer network.)

That would be business, right? Person keeps 2080Ti for half of decade or longer, but will buy pure rt accelerator to accompany it where applicable.

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#5863815 Posted on: 12/09/2020 11:24 AM

I wonder if this could be used in the near future as an raytracing add-in card to offload the RT functions from the GPU. Like we had it in the past with the PhysX accelerators. It would be a short lived technology, but might really benefit the current generation of new GPU models.

no, it can't and never will, stop wondering.

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#5863954 Posted on: 12/09/2020 04:23 PM

no, it can't and never will, stop wondering.

I agree with the "never will" part, I strongly disagree with the "can't" part. It very much can, but whether or not it is worthwhile is a different story.

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