Ponte Vecchio is the name of the first Intel GPU and will be destined for Exascale Computing

Leaked the name of the first Intel GPU, which will be called Ponte Vecchio, like the historic medieval bridge located in the Italian city of Florence.

Something highly anticipated by all users are the new Intel graphics cards. Little is known about these graphs, except that it will be called Intel Xe and that could be based on 7nm. Now the first name of the company's first GPU has been unveiled: Ponte Vecchio. It gets its name from the world-renowned and medieval medieval bridge in the Italian city of Florence.

It seems that the name would have an important meaning within the company. Using the name of this famous bridge would come from CXL technology. Compute Express Link technology is a special communication layer under PCIe 5.0 that is under development. Hence the name of bridge.

The name of the first Intel GPU will be Ponte Vecchio

Apparently Ponte Vecchio will not give life to a gaming graphics. The company will allocate the first Intel Xe to Exascale Computing. As has been learned on November 17, Intel will give data regarding the 'Aurora' project. It will be an exascale computing supercomputer with Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids processors, Ponte Vecchio graphics and a company-owned initiative called oneAPI.

The leak indicates that Ponte Vecchio used Foveros encapsulation technology and the CXL interconnect. They have also reported that the amount of Ponte Vecchio cache will be brutally large and the bandwidth will also be very large. This new GPU is also expected to deliver high performance in double precision floating point.

All this is known from a supposed slide that has not seen the light so far. It is also added that Intel Xe will be used for: HPC / Exoscala, DL / Training, Cloud GFX, Media Transcore Analytics, Workstation, Gaming, Portable and Ultra Portable PCs. 

Source: VZ