Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM
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- Intel announces 'Crescent Island,' an inference-optimized Xe3P graphics card with 160GB vRAM.
- Crescent Island is built on the next-gen Xe3P Celestial micro-architecture, optimized for performance-per-Watt.
- The GPU features 160GB of LPDDR5x memory, targeting large language models (LLMs) and AI inference use cases.
- Intel plans customer sampling for H2'2026, with broader availability likely in 2027.
- Crescent Island will be air-cooled and cost-optimized, competing with AMD MI450 and NVIDIA Vera Rubin.
- Intel also announced Gaudi 3 rack-scale reference designs, supporting up to 64 accelerators per rack.
- Gaudi 3 software support has been neglected, with no mainline Linux kernel driver as of Linux 6.18.