Intel 'ponte vecchio' is the name of a powerful new gpu xe

Intel appears to be working on a powerful new Xe-based 7nm GPU, codenamed "Ponte Vecchio, " in honor of an old bridge in Florence, Italy. A quick Google search of the codename also results in a Linkedin recruitment announcement for an engineer who will be working on solutions based on Arctic Sound / Ponte Vecchio.

Intel 'Ponte Vecchio' is the name of a new company Xe GPU

Intel's Xe-based 7nm Ponte Vecchio 7GPUs will appear in Project Aurora, a large-scale supercomputer from Intel expected to be active in 2021.

Videocardz claims that up to six Ponte Vecchio GPUs will be used in a future large-scale supercomputer called Aurora alongside two Sapphire Rapids Xeon processors. The GPUs will be connected via CXL (Compute Express Link) with a OneAPI software stack. The leak further indicates that the Ponte Vecchio GPUs will use 3D Foveros technology in conjunction with CXL. Although Ponte Vecchio is not a 'gaming' GPU, it will have a good amount of cache and a large memory bandwidth.

Intel's Ponte Vecchio GPU will also have dual-precision FP processing performance. The company also mentioned all the other segments in which the Xe GPUs will operate, including HPC / Exascale, DL / Training, Cloud GFX, Media Transcore Analytics, Workstation, Gaming, PC Mobile and Ultra Mobile. Intel is said to be planning to reveal more details about its upcoming 7nm 'Ponte Vecchio' based Xe GPU on November 17.

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Intel's plans for gamers are still in the air, and while we know the company will launch Xe in late 2020, we don't know exactly under what conditions it will. We will keep you informed.

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