More than a dozen new GPU developers have emerged in China in recent years, and this month yet another GPU designer, MetaX, unveiled its first product designed for artificial intelligence and video processing applications, the Xisi N100. Announced. Perhaps more interestingly, the company has reportedly pledged to introduce the first gaming graphics processor by 2025. IT home.
For now, MetaX is primarily focused on AI and data center GPUs. Perhaps because they are more profitable and require more predictable software efforts. However, the company’s co-founder Yang Jiang said: To tell The company plans to introduce gaming GPUs by 2025.The company’s website certainly shows that the company is gearing up MXG-series GPUs for graphics renderingHowever, it’s not entirely clear at this point if the company’s GPUs will actually be used in client PCs as they are said to be designed for cloud gaming and data center applications.
Whether MetaX can produce a competitive gaming GPU remains to be seen, but its Xisi N100 (MXN series) is very promising for inference and video processing. With N100 chip and HBM2E memory onboard, the single-slot low-profile card features compute performance of 160 INT8 TOPS and 80 FP16 TFLOPS.To put the numbers into context, Nvidia’s entry-level A30 Compute GPU capability is 330 INT8 TOPS and 165 FP16 TFLOPS (doubled by sparsity). Assuming his MXMACA software stack, developed in-house by MetaX, works fine and the computing GPU certainly hits peak performance, it looks pretty capable.
As far as the MetaX N100’s video capabilities are concerned, the GPU supports AV1, AVS2, H.265 and H.265/HEVC formats and resolutions up to 8K. The developer claims it can encode up to 128 streams and decode up to 96 streams, but MetaX doesn’t reveal what resolution they’re talking about here.
For some reason, MetaX has not disclosed what process technology they use to manufacture the Xisi N100 or where it is manufactured, but the fact that they use advanced packaging with HBM2E. , we suspect that this compute processor is manufactured by a major foundry using advanced manufacturing processes. .
