Intel GPU Instruction Set Architecture Gets First Overhaul Since 2004

Posted by rbanffy on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @07:43AM
from the wccftech.com dept.

https://wccftech.com/intel-gpu-instruction-set-gets-first-massive-overhaul-for-intel-xe-architecture-since-2004/

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Re:Intel GPU Instruction Set Architecture Gets First Overhau... by m0zg on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:26AM (#20948902)

And unlike, say, AMD, they also have a serious deep learning software effort. OpenVINO is pretty impressive performance-wise, in spite of its goofy name. I've done some back of the envelope, and at least on desktop chips it gets pretty darn close to the theoretical max GFLOPs on stuff that's not too terribly memory bound.

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Re:Intel GPU Instruction Set Architecture Gets First Overhau... by fithisux on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:42AM (#20948997)

Is it running with integrated graphics?

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Re:Intel GPU Instruction Set Architecture Gets First Overhau... by m0zg on Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:53AM (#20949725)

It can run on that as well, yes.

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Re:Intel GPU Instruction Set Architecture Gets First Overhau... by comex on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:49AM (#20948414)

Yet Intel's CPU instruction set architecture hasn't gotten an overhaul since 1985 or so. :) The advantages of not directly exposing the ISA to programmers...

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Re:Intel GPU Instruction Set Architecture Gets First Overhau... by mikesmonkey on Thursday September 12, 2019 @04:32AM (#20949274)

Well intel did try with itanium

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