Intel Ponte Vecchio will be available in two versions: Ponte Vecchio and Ponte Vecchio XT

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According to Phoronix, Intel’s latest C for Metal compiler adds support for current and upcoming GPUs, including GPUs used by integrated and discrete graphics, such as Intel Arc Alchemist and Ponte Vecchio. Interestingly, the Ponte Vecchio computing card will have at least two versions, named “Intel Ponte Vecchio” and “Intel Ponte Vecchio XT”.
Intel Ponte Vecchio XT

Ponte Vecchio is Intel’s first exascale computing GPU, using Intel’s most advanced packaging technology ever, with more than 100 billion transistors, it is composed of 47 chips called “Velcro”, including 16 computing chips of Xe-HPG architecture, 8 Rambo cache chips, 2 Xe basic chips, 11 EMIB connection chips, 2 Xe Link I/O chips, and 8 HBM chips, integrated with the EMIB and Foveros 3D package, is the master of Intel’s advanced technology at this stage.

As we all know, Raja Koduri, Intel’s senior vice president, chief architect, and general manager of the architecture, graphics, and software divisions, worked at AMD for more than ten years, the naming method “Ponte Vecchio XT” is very similar to the way ATI/AMD uses it for the most powerful version of GPU. Raja Koduri seems to have brought this habit to Intel.

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