Intel Arctic Sound-M has started shipping
Arctic Sound-M is Intel‘s first GPU with a hardware AV1 encoder, equipped with an industry-leading open source media solution that can transcode 8 4K video streams simultaneously, or 30 1080P video streams. It is aimed at supercomputers for media and analytics, such as video sites or game streaming services.
Recently, Intel officially issued an announcement that the Arctic Sound-M data center GPU has begun to ship, which means that the driver and software stack of the Intel Xe-HPG architecture GPU is sufficient to meet the needs of the data center.
There are two models of Arctic Sound-M data center GPUs, the TDP is 150W and 75W versions, the former is based on ACM-G10, and the latter uses two ACM-G11s. It is understood that the Arctic Sound-M data center GPU shipped this time is a version equipped with ACM-G10, which is a single-slot full-height card specification. It is equipped with 32 Xe cores, that is, 4096 stream processors, with 16GB of video memory, supports XMX instructions, can accelerate AI inference workloads, and has an 8Pin external power supply interface.
In addition, the 75W version of the Arctic Sound-M data center GPU is equipped with two ACM-G11 chips, with a total of 16 Xe cores, or 2048 stream processors. Due to the single-slot half-height card specification, it can be placed in a more compact rack. It’s unclear when the 75W version of the Arctic Sound-M data center GPU will ship, but it is speculated that Intel server GPU customers who are already using the Iris Xe may replace it with the new card.
Although the data center GPU based on ACM-G10 has been shipped, the Arc graphics card using the same chip has not yet been widely distributed.
