Intel Xeon 6 with P-cores and Gaudi 3 AI Accelerators

Intel has unveiled Xeon 6 with Performance-cores (P-cores) and Gaudi 3 AI accelerators. The Xeon 6 processors double the performance of their predecessors, with increased core counts, memory bandwidth, and embedded AI acceleration, catering to AI applications from the edge to the cloud. The Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator, tailored for generative AI, is equipped with 64 Tensor processor cores, eight matrix multiplication engines, and 128GB of HBM2e memory, offering up to 20% more throughput and twice the price/performance compared to the H100 for LLaMa 2 70B inference. 

Intel Gaudi 3 Explained in 60 Seconds

Here’s a one-minute breakdown of three things to know about Intel® Gaudi® 3 Al accelerators. Launched at the company’s AI event on Sept. 24, 2024, Gaudi 3 boosts breakthroughs in AI compute muscle, memory bandwidth and flexibility, offering customers open, community-based software and industry-standard Ethernet networking.

Social Animation: Intel’s latest Xeon 6 processor

Improved AI workload performance, increased memory bandwidth, and twice the number of cores – Intel’s latest Xeon 6 processor delivers performance gains like never before. (Credit: Intel Corporation)