HIP is their effort to do that. Not sure they're putting enough dev and optimization effort to extract actual max perf from their hardware. So you're putting on

HIP is their effort to do that. Not sure they're putting enough dev and optimization effort to extract actual max perf from their hardware. So you're putting one (or 16) 300W board in your system with lower efficiency, risk of no support, bad long term support. And for (easier, more efficient) training you need large memory and hug interconnect. Only NVIDIA has this combination. I'll wait until I see XeLink bridged/switched servers actually in prod, benchmarkable by any noob, before I touch Intel GPUs for training. And if you were thinking H100s were unobtainium, try buying Intel Gaudi stuff...