Looks like Intel is choosing to title its new crescent island cards with the D prefix despite being Crescent Island.
Kind of disappointed that Intel is (probably) not going to release consumer class GPUs. Intel's driver stack was seriously getting mature—both on Linux and Windows. It's always nice to have a third option available.
oddIdentities•24m ago
At least that driver stack will continue to mature?
zakisaad•7m ago
On Linux mainly, and almost strictly for compute workloads (not much need to optimize for 3D workloads given the customer base).
jauntywundrkind•35m ago
They originally said it was going to be 120GB but that partners could ship bigger capacities. So much for that!
I do hope this has a price point that makes it somewhat competitive with a Mac! Consumers have had nearly no choices available for mem capacity, and 20 channels of lpddr5 is one way to get that capacity! Go Intel!
bigyabai•27m ago
Both this GPU and the Mac are constrained by a lack of GPU compute. There's basically no rack-scale GPUs with 480gb on-die that have a sub-400W compute element. It's going to be incredibly prefill-constrained on denser model inference just like the Apple Silicon iGPUs are.
rkagerer•11m ago
Can I actually buy this? Should I prefer it over Blackwell?
hurricanepootis•2h ago
Kind of disappointed that Intel is (probably) not going to release consumer class GPUs. Intel's driver stack was seriously getting mature—both on Linux and Windows. It's always nice to have a third option available.
oddIdentities•24m ago
zakisaad•7m ago