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  • 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.

    by hurricanepootis
  • How much is it expected to cost?
    by nunzioraciti
  • Fun to see the LLMism on the product page: "A, not B"
    by 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.

    by ismailmaj
  • Can I actually buy this? Should I prefer it over Blackwell?
    by rkagerer
  • With an impressive 1.5TB/s RAM bandwidth you'd think they'd advertise that more.

    Marketing department asleep at the wheel.

    by suprjami
  • 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

    by hannasm
  • 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.

    by K0balt

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