Intel announced this week that it has started shipping its Arctic Sound-M graphics and video transcoding cards for data centers. The board utilizes Intel’s “Big Arc Alchemist” ACM-G10 GPU. This chip will power Intel’s upcoming high-performance mainstream and high-end Arc A500 and Arc A700 series of gamer graphics boards.
“Intel Data Center GPUs, codenamed Arctic Sound-M, are now shipping,” Intel said in a statement. twitter (Opens in a new tab) read. “This open and flexible GPU supports a wide variety of workloads, including cloud gaming and media streaming. We can’t wait to see your innovative solutions come to life!”
Intel’s codenamed Arctic Sound-M graphics and data center video transcoding card uses the ACM-G10 GPU with up to 32 Xe cores (equivalent to up to 4,096 stream processors) and 16GB of memory. increase. Intel’s ACM-G10 graphics processor can handle transcoding up to 8 simultaneous 4K video streams, rendering 30+ 1080p streams, and 40+ game streams. As a bonus, Intel’s high-end Arc Alchemist GPUs also support XMX instructions, which can speed up AI inference workloads.
It’s unclear which company will get Intel’s new Arctic Sound-M graphics and video transcoding boards. Still, we’re talking about the usual cloud suspects that offer streaming services for games and videos.
A key takeaway from Intel’s Arctic Sound-M shipment is the company’s confidence that the drivers and software stack for its ACM-G10 graphics processor will work well in the data center. This basically means remote rendering some games as video transcoding. End users tend to have slightly different requirements as they play a more comprehensive range of games and use a wider range of applications. So while there is no direct correlation between data center readiness and end-user software, the former readiness is an overall good sign.
Intel’s Arctic Sound-M family also includes the company’s high-density multi-purpose Arctic Sound-M boards with two “tiny” ACM-G11 GPUs that can serve the same purpose as the single-chip ones. Note that Intel’s point on Twitter is that they are talking about a specific product because they intentionally feature single-chip cards. Unfortunately, I don’t know if Intel is shipping a multi-purpose dual-chip Arctic Sound-M. Still, we can speculate that customers already using Intel’s server GPUs based on the two Iris Xe discrete GPUs may be interested in its successor.
