Intel Rialto Bridge will bring servers to life

With both EPYC processors and Instinct graphics accelerators on the server side, AMD has long had an advantage. Nvidia aims to eliminate this advantage with Grace ARM processors. Intel now wants to challenge its competitors with its own graphics unit.

What will Intel Rialto Bridge offer?

With the Ponte Vecchio accelerator system introduced last year, Intel started to add graphics accelerators to its processors for the first time. Ponte Vecchio, which contains 128 Xe cores, is combined up to 4 and 2 Sapphire Rapids processors are added next to it.

Next year, Intel will switch to a new generation accelerator platform called Rialto Bridge. The Railto Bridge, which will have new production techniques, can be scaled up to a total of 160 Xe cores. Quadruple combinations provide more cores and higher performance. The system is completed with Sapphire Rapids processors and HBM2E memory modules up to 64Gb capacity.

will be targeting the next generation flexible architecture servers called Falcon Shores in 2024. The most important advantages are performance increase per watt up to 5 times, processing density up to 5 times x86 and memory capacity increase up to 5 times.

On the software side, Intel XPU manager will be an open source solution to monitor Intel graphics units in real time. The manager, which facilitates management, will be offered to server customers in the near future.