Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X

hurricanepootis

Looks like Intel is choosing to title its new crescent island cards with the D prefix despite being Crescent Island. Kind of disappointed that Intel is (probably) not going to release consumer class GPUs. Intel's driver stack was seriously getting mature—both on Linux and Windows. It's always nice to have a third option available.

jauntywundrkind

They originally said it was going to be 120GB but that partners could ship bigger capacities. So much for that! I do hope this has a price point that makes it somewhat competitive with a Mac! Consumers have had nearly no choices available for mem capacity, and 20 channels of lpddr5 is one way to get that capacity! Go Intel!

rkagerer

Can I actually buy this? Should I prefer it over Blackwell?

doublerabbit

> Efficient token serving Dense, air-cooled, standard PCIe infrastructure helps maximize tokens per rack and watt, scaling serving capacity and keeping costs in check. Next the tokens will be asking for tequila and caviar. Bow down to the new token overloads.

arjie

Seems incredibly little compute for this. Is it meant to be MoE specific?

porkbellyeee

Ai generated no doubt

nekusar

Yay more vaporware hardware I get to read about and never see or have a chance to buy.

aboardRat4

How many fps in Cyberpunk 2077?

ismailmaj

Fun to see the LLMism on the product page: "A, not B"

suprjami

With an impressive 1.5TB/s RAM bandwidth you'd think they'd advertise that more. Marketing department asleep at the wheel.

K0balt

These are going to be so awesome to buy in 5-8 years! Right now I’m running 2x 3090 and 128 gb ram on 3.8 flash-next180b (the quant is 97gb) and it hums at120t/s. It’s really a surprisingly good model for general tasks, and I’m soon to see how it does with more agentic kit. For agentic work it does slow down quite a bit when the context fills up… but what do you want for running a 180b model on consumer hardware? Right now I have it set up as an administrator for our asterisk PBX and radius server, and it does higher level judgment on our cctv footage for notifications to security. It’s been really good so far. Agents are the new UI, everything just works over SSH now.

ismailmaj

1.5 TB/s 1.3 PFLOPS with no fast multi-GPU, it's a consumer card that pretends to be a server card. It would work great on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next or GLM-5.3 as single user decode only hits a few experts, anything with concurrent users and you'd be sitting for a while.

nunzioraciti

How much is it expected to cost?

hannasm

Can intel gift me one? The cost of a 480gb ram video card seems preposterous to be even marketing at this point. Intel is going to make a card that costs $1 million dollars.. this is like industrial newsletters bleeding into a public forum > Commercial Scale Pricing: In the industrial data center sector, battery storage systems are priced per kilowatt-hour (kWh) or megawatt-hour (MWh). Industrial battery storage installations typically cost $300,000 to $450,000+ per MWh of capacity depending on software integration, cooling systems, and structural framing. Let's all get excited

ckrapu

Slop and placeholder text on the page, including this one. They should have reviewed their webpage. "What software frameworks are relevant to Intel GPU D270? Intel GPU D270 messaging should reference familiar AI software and serving frameworks such as PyTorch, vLLM, SGLang, and OpenAI Triton, where approved. This helps developers and platform teams understand how the product fits into existing AI workflows."

p0w3n3d

To be honest these ubiquitous AI hardware news look to me more and more like Maybach commercials. Not targeting me