These are going to be so awesome to buy in 5-8 years!
Right now I’m running 2x 3090 and 128 gb ram on 3.8 flash-next180b (the quant is 97gb) and it hums at120t/s. It’s really a surprisingly good model for general tasks, and I’m soon to see how it does with more agentic kit. For agentic work it does slow down quite a bit when the context fills up… but what do you want for running a 180b model on consumer hardware?
Right now I have it set up as an administrator for our asterisk PBX and radius server, and it does higher level judgment on our cctv footage for notifications to security. It’s been really good so far. Agents are the new UI, everything just works over SSH now.
The cost of a 480gb ram video card seems preposterous to be even marketing at this point.
Intel is going to make a card that costs $1 million dollars.. this is like industrial newsletters bleeding into a public forum
> Commercial Scale Pricing: In the industrial data center sector, battery storage systems are priced per kilowatt-hour (kWh) or megawatt-hour (MWh). Industrial battery storage installations typically cost $300,000 to $450,000+ per MWh of capacity depending on software integration, cooling systems, and structural framing.
1.5 TB/s 1.3 PFLOPS with no fast multi-GPU, it's a consumer card that pretends to be a server card.
It would work great on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next or GLM-5.3 as single user decode only hits a few experts, anything with concurrent users and you'd be sitting for a while.
That's the point I believe fast local 2-4 user service for cheap on very large models.
You have to pretend it's for servers to keep investors happy, it would be banks and similar with in house servers that have to run local large models buying these for experiments and cybersecurity. Likely.
You can tell by the shape of the board that it's meant to go into a server chassis behind a stack of 80mm blower fans. It's not meant for consumers, but you will be able to buy it used for $200 off ebay in 7 years to put in your home lab.
Intel ai gpu division is so aggressively anti “small” consumer. I think it has something to do with low volume and a small sales/distribution network. The data center cards I have from amd and nvidia are grey market at best. I don’t think intel moved enough units to establish alternate channels.
What I don't understand is: when you only plan for your product to have 10 customers, why even make a marketing page like this for it? At that point it's essentially the hardware equivalent of consultingware, something you sell to your existing contacts through outbound calls and by shoving ads through the B2B equivalent of a post-consumer sales channel (i.e. proactive outreach by your org's internal champion for that customer, to said customer.)
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.
Agreed. I was really rooting for them to deliver that third iteration to consumers, and retain them as a competitive option in the low to mid range. Pretty sad to see.
"Both" requires more engineering staff on payroll, more wafers to fab/dice/package/test, more boards to manufacture, more inventory to manage, among other things. If their math says it isn't worth it (granted that they don't always get it right), then they don't do it.
For now. A limited run of Celestials until 2028 when Serpent Lake switches to Nvidia tiles, and a bit longer for the LTS combo (AMD style) IO+GPU die in lower end/embedded products.
Druid is still dead, consumer DGPUs are still, and workstation DGPUs also seems to be dead, and most of the Xe driver team for Windows was laid off, as well as most of the Xe chip design team.
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!
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.
> But I am surprised that they were able to pack so much flops into 300W.
I'm not. When you're doing inference you typically reduce power limits anyway if you're optimizing for efficiency. Even if you don't, it doesn't spike to the max of the card.
My 3090 I power it down to 175W or so for single-digit reductions in performance for like, 60% of the wattage, something like that.
> Efficient token serving
Dense, air-cooled, standard PCIe infrastructure helps maximize tokens per rack and watt, scaling serving capacity and keeping costs in check.
Next the tokens will be asking for tequila and caviar. Bow down to the new token overloads.
Right now I’m running 2x 3090 and 128 gb ram on 3.8 flash-next180b (the quant is 97gb) and it hums at120t/s. It’s really a surprisingly good model for general tasks, and I’m soon to see how it does with more agentic kit. For agentic work it does slow down quite a bit when the context fills up… but what do you want for running a 180b model on consumer hardware?
Right now I have it set up as an administrator for our asterisk PBX and radius server, and it does higher level judgment on our cctv footage for notifications to security. It’s been really good so far. Agents are the new UI, everything just works over SSH now.
Literally my first thought!
The cost of a 480gb ram video card seems preposterous to be even marketing at this point.
Intel is going to make a card that costs $1 million dollars.. this is like industrial newsletters bleeding into a public forum
> Commercial Scale Pricing: In the industrial data center sector, battery storage systems are priced per kilowatt-hour (kWh) or megawatt-hour (MWh). Industrial battery storage installations typically cost $300,000 to $450,000+ per MWh of capacity depending on software integration, cooling systems, and structural framing.
Let's all get excited
Marketing department asleep at the wheel.
A single B300 has almost 8 TB/s.
AMD MI300x from 2023 is 5.3 TB/s
Edit: my bad you are saying that this is an impressive number precisely because it is more or less normal RAM, not VRAM
It would work great on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next or GLM-5.3 as single user decode only hits a few experts, anything with concurrent users and you'd be sitting for a while.
You have to pretend it's for servers to keep investors happy, it would be banks and similar with in house servers that have to run local large models buying these for experiments and cybersecurity. Likely.
No. Certainly not now, maybe not ever. That is the least consumer-focused product page I've seen today.
You can work with 10 players that will buy all of them with minimal effort.
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.
Theres so much money to be made
Druid is still dead, consumer DGPUs are still, and workstation DGPUs also seems to be dead, and most of the Xe driver team for Windows was laid off, as well as most of the Xe chip design team.
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!
This is almost twice better than RTX 5090. This GPU will not be prefill constrained, I feel.
But I am surprised that they were able to pack so much flops into 300W.
I'm not. When you're doing inference you typically reduce power limits anyway if you're optimizing for efficiency. Even if you don't, it doesn't spike to the max of the card.
My 3090 I power it down to 175W or so for single-digit reductions in performance for like, 60% of the wattage, something like that.
Next the tokens will be asking for tequila and caviar. Bow down to the new token overloads.