Intel has unveiled its most expensive and most powerful Xeon Phi processor, the Xeon Phi 7290, which packs 72 processing cores, each clocked at 1.5GHz.

Priced at US $6294, the Xeon Phi 7290 is the fastest Xeon Phi chip up to date and since it does not rely on the PCIe interface, it can offer much wider variety of both workloads and configurations which are not supported by standard accelerators.

In addition to the 72 processing cores, the Xeon Phi 7290 also comes with 16GB of High Bandwidth Memory for a total memory bandwidth of 490GB/s.

In addition to the Xeon Phi 7290, which has 72 processing cores and 245W+15W TDP, Intel unveiled three other Xeon Phi accelerators, including the Xeon Phi 7250 with 68 processing cores at 1.4GHz, 16GB of HBM1 as well as the Xeon Phi 7230 and the Xeon Phi 7210, both coming with 64 processor cores clocked at 1.3GHz but with lower overall memory bandwidth.

The new line of Intel Xeon Phi processors also supports Intel's next-generation fabric architecture, Intel Omni-Path, support for Intel Solutions for Lustre software for storage, comes with integrated MCDRAM with up to 5x the bandwidth of DDR4 and simplifies complexity of installation, configuration and ongoing maintenance thanks to Intel HPC Orchestrator.

As noted, the fastest Intel Xeon Phi 7290 should ship in September with a price set at US $6294.



Source: via Wccftech.com.