For all the talk about Nvidia and AMD when it comes to GPUs, today is the day Intel announces a product that will whet gamers' appetites. Admittedly, it's not a gaming GPU, but it's a very good looking chip nonetheless.

As you can see, it's quite a package: two separate "base" chiplets, or what Intel calls "tiles," that make up the GPU's core. These will contain 512 EUs, and it appears that there will be a total of 1024 EUs, but we have not yet heard directly from Intel about the final loadout.

Surrounding each are five tiles of various sizes. At least four are definitely HBM memory, the one to the left of the GPU appears to fit that bill, and the rest are a mix of "Compute," "Rambo Cache," and "I/O."

The overall bandwidth is sure to be huge, both for data center parts and for the Aurora supercomputer.

Some of these tiles will be manufactured on Intel 10nm SuperFin, Enhanced SuperFin, "Next Gen" (probably 7nm), and external foundry nodes.

All of these will be tied together using Intel's Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge technology (EMIB for short) and Intel's chip stacking Foveros technology.

So there should be more here than meets the eye.

But above all, this is an absolute marvel. Even if this GPU will never make it into our gaming PCs, it will be realized in a future Xe-HPG, and it is good to see a brand new GPU that is a bit of a mystery in 2021.

Well done, Intel.