Intel confirms Crescent Island GPU will pack 32 Xe3P cores and up to 480GB of memory
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The big picture: Intel announced its Crescent Island data center GPU last year before sharing more details at Computex 2026 in June. The company has now revealed all the key specifications, including core count, cache, memory, and more. Team Blue also emphasized that Crescent Island is optimized for performance per watt and improved AI model support rather than raw compute performance.
At the Hot Chips 2026 symposium in Palo Alto this week, Intel revealed that Crescent Island will feature 32 Xe3P cores, 256 XMX engines, 32MB of unified L2 cache, a PCIe Gen5 x16 interface, and a 350W TDP for the air-cooled model. Intel will ship Crescent Island accelerators with 160GB of LPDDR5X memory, but the chip will support ODM designs with up to 480GB of VRAM.
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