Intel seems to be amping up progress on their AI project and it looks like Nvidia’s new H100 AI GPU is set to have competition in the form of the Intel Gaudi3. Built on the 5nm architecture, the Baudi3 wants to take the fight to the ultra-popular H100 graphics card.
The Baudi3 will be a direct successor to the Baudi2, which was built on the 7nm platform. The shift to 5nm technology will enable Baudi3 to have 4 times more brain floating power (BF16), double the networking power, and 1.5 times the bandwidth of high-bandwidth memory.
Set to launch in 2024, the Baudi3 will be fitted with a 128GB HBM3e RAM, which is a significant upgrade over the 96GB HBM2e on-board memory that was fitted on its predecessor, which also means better and faster AI training capability.
Intel has claimed the the Baudi3 will be built to rival the GH200, which is seemingly the successor to the H100 GPU, and since the existing Baudi2 matches up to H100 in terms of performance, the Baudi3 will be even more capable of taking the fight to Nvidia and hopefully, Intel will be able to close the gap their biggest competitors, but it is also likely that Nvidia will take it up a notch with their next GPU as well.
Intel was smart enough to showcase the Gaudi3 alongside the new Intel Max Series 1550 graphics card, which will be featuring on the newly online Aurora Supercomputer. For those of you who don’t know, the Aurora Supercomputer is only the second Exascale supercomputer in existence, but once it is fully tuned, it is expected to be the most powerful supercomputer in existence.
Now, when there were benchmark tests performed on the Intel 1550, it was observed that the chipset is more than capable of beating it’s biggest competitors, and this is surely going to give Intel a huge boost and the company will look to emulate this kind of success in there upcoming projects.
