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August 24, 2022 09:55 am GMT

Intel Claims "Ponte Vecchio" Will Trade Blows with NVIDIA Hopper in Most Compute Workloads

With AMD and NVIDIA launching its next-generation HPC compute architectures, "Hopper" and CDNA2, it began seeming like Intel's ambitious "Ponte Vecchio" accelerator based on the Xe-HP architecture, has missed the time-to-market bus. Intel doesn't think so, and in its Hot Chips 34 presentation, disclosed some of the first detailed performance claims thatat least on paperput the "Hopper" H100 accelerator's published compute performance numbers to shame. We already had some idea of how Ponte Vecchio would perform this spring, at Intel's ISC'22 presentation, but the company hadn't finalized the product's power and thermal characteristics, which are determined by its clock-speed and boosting behavior. Team blue claims to have gotten over the final development hurdles, and is ready with some big numbers.

Intel claims that in classic FP32 (single-precision) and FP64 (double-precision) floating-point tests, its silicon is highly competitive with the H100 "Hopper," with the company claiming 52 TFLOP/s FP32 for the "Ponte Vecchio," compared to 60 TFLOP/s for the H100; and a significantly higher 52 TFLOP/s FP64 for the "Ponte Vecchio," compared to 30 TFLOP/s for the H100. This has to do with the SIMD units of the Xe-HP architecture all being natively capable of double-precision floating-point operations; whereas NVIDIA's architecture typically rely on FP64-specialized streaming multiprocessors.

Original Link: https://www.techpowerup.com/298091/intel-claims-ponte-vecchio-will-trade-blows-with-nvidia-hopper-in-most-compute-workloads

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