Product Brief

Accelerated Computing
Systems and Graphics

Intel® Data Center GPU

Max Series
Maximize impact with the Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series, Intel’s highest performing,
highest density discrete GPU, which packs more than 100 billion transistors into a package
and contains up to 128 Xe cores, Intel’s foundational GPU compute building block.

When deploying GPUs in a high-performance computing (HPC) environment,

customers face substantial obstacles and inefficiencies caused by the need to port and
refactor code. Their efforts are further hampered by proprietary GPU programming
environments that prohibit portability between GPU vendors and often result in
inconsistency between CPU and GPU implementations. The need for GPU-level
memory bandwidth, at scale, and sharing code investments between CPUs and GPUs
for running a majority of the workloads in a highly parallelized environment has become
essential.
Intel Data Center GPU Max Series is designed for breakthrough performance in data-
intensive computing models used in AI and HPC. Based on the Xe HPC architecture that
uses both EMIB 2.5D and Foveros packaging technologies to combine 47 active tiles
onto a single GPU, fabricated on five different process nodes, Intel Max Series GPUs
enable greater flexibility and modularity in the construction of the SOC.
Intel’s foundational GPU compute building block features:
• Up to 408 MB of L2 cache based on discrete SRAM technology, 64 MB of L1 cache
and up to 128 GB of high-bandwidth memory.
• Up to 128 ray tracing units built into each Max Series GPU for accelerating scientific
visualization and animation.
• AI-boosting Intel® Xe Matrix Extensions (XMX) with deep systolic arrays enabling
vector and matrix capabilities in a single device.
• oneAPI standards-based, multiarchitecture programming and tools, which boost
performance and productivity and overcome proprietary programming model
lock-in.
• Strong performance highlighted by:
- Up to 12.8x performance gain over 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® processors on LAMMPS
(large-scale atomic/
molecular massively

2x performance
parallel simulator)
workloads running on
UP TO
Xeon Max CPU with
kernels offloaded to gains over competition on AI and HPC
six Max Series GPUs workloads due to large L2 Cache1
and optimized by Intel
oneAPI tools. 2

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Solving the world’s most challenging problems…faster

Increased density and compute power is helping researchers solve problems currently out of reach – for example, creating a 3D map
of a mouse brain, or modeling patient-specific blood flow to
determine where to insert a heart stent.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Aurora Supercomputer at
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is expected to be one of
the industry’s first supercomputers to feature over 1 exaflop of
sustained double-precision performance and over 2 exaflops
of peak double-precision performance. Aurora will also be the
first to showcase the power of pairing Max Series GPUs and
CPUs in a single system, with more than 10,000 blades, each
containing six Max Series GPUs and two Xeon Max CPUs.

Accelerating HPC and AI Workloads Across Multiple Architectures

AI models continuously require larger data sets for more effective training. The faster you can process the data, the faster you can train
and deploy the model. The GPU accelerates end-to-end AI and data analytics pipelines with libraries optimized for
Intel architectures and configurations tuned for HPC and AI workloads, high-capacity storage and high-bandwidth
memory.
The entire Intel Max Series product family is unified by oneAPI for a common, open, standards-based
programming model to unleash productivity and performance. Intel oneAPI tools include advanced compilers,
libraries, profilers and code migration tools to easily migrate CUDA code to open C++ with SYCL. Using oneAPI-
optimized deep learning frameworks and machine learning libraries, developers can realize drop-in acceleration for data analytics and
machine learning workflows.
This easy-to-deploy, open-standards approach reduces development time, complexity and cost, and enables developers to
overcome the constraints of proprietary environments that limit code portability.
For the latest HPC and AI software developer tools, visit Software for Intel Data Center GPU Max Series.

Intel Data Center Max Series Products & Form Factor Flexibility
Intel Max Series GPUs are available in several form factors:
• Intel® Data Center Max 1100 GPU: A 300-watt double-wide AIC card
with 56 Xe cores and 48 GB of HBM2E memory. Multiple cards can be
connected via Intel Xe Link bridges.
• Intel® Data Center Max 1450 GPU: A 600-watt OAM module with 128
Xe cores and 128 GB of HBM that is PRC import friendly. Xelink ports
operate at 26.5 GB/s.
• Intel® Data Center Max 1550 GPU: Intel’s maximum performance 600-
watt OAM module with 128 Xe cores and 128
GB of HBM.
• Intel® Data Center Max Subsystem with Intel Data Center GPU Max Series AIC Card
x4 GPU OAM carrier board and Intel Xe Link to
enable multi-GPU communication within the subsystem.

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Intel Data Center GPU Max Series

Max 1550 GPU (600W OAM) Max 1450 GPU (600W OAM) Max 1100 GPU (300W AIC)

Architecture Xe HPC

Xe Cores 128 128 56

Memory HBM2E 128 GB HBM2E 128 GB HBM2E 48 GB

L1 64 MB L1 64 MB L1 28 MB
Cache
L2 408 MB L2 408 MB L2 108 MB

Max TDP 600W 600W 300W

Form Factor OAM AIC

Host Interconnect PCIe Gen5

Xe Link 53 GB/s Xe Link 26.5 GB/s Xe Link 53 GB/s

Physical Ports
16 ports 16 ports 6 ports

For the most up-to-date information, visit Intel.com/MaxSeriesGPU

1 Visit the Supercomputing 22 page at intel.com/performanceindex for workloads and configurations.

2 LAMMPS (Atomic Fluid, Copper, DPD, Liquid_crystal, Polyethylene, Protein, Stillinger-Weber, Tersoff, Water)
• Intel® Xeon® 8380: Test by Intel as of 10/11/2022. 1-node, 2x Intel® Xeon® 8380 CPU, HT On, Turbo On, NUMA configuration SNC2, Total Memory 256 GB (16x16GB 3200 MT/s, Dual-Rank),
BIOS Version SE5C620.86B.01.01.0006.2207150335, ucode revision=0xd000375, Rocky Linux 8.6, Linux version 4.18.0-372.26.1.el8_6.crt1.x86_64, LAMMPS v2021-09-29 cmkl:2022.1.0,
icc:2021.6.0, impi:2021.6.0, tbb:2021.6.0; threads/core:; Turbo:on; BuildKnobs: -O3 -ip -xCORE-AVX512 -g -debug inline-debug-info -qopt-zmm-usage=high;
• 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor: Test by Intel as of 9/29/2022. 1-node, 2x Intel® Xeon® 8480+, HT On, Turbo On, SNC4, Total Memory 512 GB (16x32GB 4800 MT/s, DDR5), BIOS Version
SE5C7411.86B.8713.D03.2209091345, ucode revision=0x2b000070, Rocky Linux 8.6, Linux version 4.18.0-372.26.1.el8_6.crt1.x86_64, LAMMPS v2021-09-29 cmkl:2022.1.0, icc:2021.6.0,
impi:2021.6.0, tbb:2021.6.0; threads/core:; Turbo:off; BuildKnobs: -O3 -ip -xCORE-AVX512 -g -debug inline-debug-info -qopt-zmm-usage=high;
• Intel® Xeon® CPU Max Series: Test by Intel as of 9/29/2022. 1-node, 2x Intel® Xeon® Max 9480, HT ON, Turbo ON, NUMA configuration SNC4, Total Memory 128 GB (HBM2E at 3200 MHz),
BIOS Version SE5C7411.86B.8424.D03.2208100444, ucode revision=0x2c000020, CentOS Stream 8, Linux version 5.19.0-rc6.0712.intel_next.1.x86_64+server, LAMMPS v2021-09-29
cmkl:2022.1.0, icc:2021.6.0, impi:2021.6.0, tbb:2021.6.0; threads/core:; Turbo:off; BuildKnobs: -O3 -ip -xCORE-AVX512 -g -debug inline-debug-info -qopt-zmm-usage=high;
Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more on the Performance Index site.
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