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La Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 (Ponte Vecchio) es la GPU de centro de datos insignia de Intel, con 128 GB de memoria HBM2e y 3,2 TB/s de ancho de banda en un diseño multi-tile masivo. Compite directamente con la NVIDIA A100 para entrenamiento e inferencia de IA a gran escala. Construida sobre la arquitectura Xe HPC con oneAPI y SYCL, la gran capacidad de VRAM permite inferencia de modelos de 70B+ en FP16 en una sola tarjeta.
Beyond LLMs
What AI tasks this GPU can handle — from text generation to image and video creation.
| Capability | Status | Representative Model |
|---|---|---|
| LLM Chat (7B) | Runs natively | Llama 3.1 8B Q4 |
| LLM Coding (30B) | Runs natively | Qwen 3 30B Q4 |
| LLM Large (70B) | Runs natively | Llama 3.1 70B Q4 |
| Image Gen (SDXL) | Runs natively | SDXL 1.0 FP16 |
| Image Gen (Flux) | Runs natively | Flux.1 Dev FP16 |
| Image Gen (SD 3.5) | Runs natively | SD 3.5 Large FP16 |
| Video Short (25f) | Runs natively | LTX Video 2B |
| Video Long (100f) | Runs natively | Wan Video 14B |
Architecture
Ponte Vecchio is Intel's datacenter GPU architecture powering the Max series accelerators. It uses advanced multi-tile packaging combining Intel 7 and TSMC N5 processes, with up to 128 GB HBM2e memory.
AI Relevance
With 128 GB HBM2e and oneAPI support, the Max 1550 can host large AI models. Used in the Aurora exascale supercomputer. However, the AI software ecosystem is smaller than CUDA or ROCm.
Consejo de compra
Excelente opción para IA local
Ejecuta 36 de 50 modelos principales bien — un todoterreno sólido para inferencia local.
128.0 GB
VRAM
$15,000
PVP
$117/GB
Coste por GB de VRAM
Mejores modelos para esta GPU
What will limit you first
La memoria puede parecer suficiente, pero el ecosistema de software sigue siendo una limitación aquí.
El ecosistema de runtimes es más estrecho que CUDA
Las Intel pueden parecer atractivas por memoria por euro, pero hoy el tooling, los kernels y la cobertura de modelos siguen siendo más amplios y sencillos en CUDA.
Best upgrade itinerary
Prefiere CUDA si buscas el camino más sencillo
Si tu objetivo es máxima cobertura de runtimes, menos fricción al depurar y mejor soporte para nuevas releases de IA local, CUDA sigue siendo normalmente la ruta más segura.
Desbloquea 2 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.
¿Quieres más margen? NVIDIA H200 141GB (141.0 GB VRAM) es el siguiente paso.
Chat
SQwen 3.5 122B A10B matches Chat and keeps a practical fit profile. It is a recent-generation family, which helps on current local SOTA workloads. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Context coverage stays within the requested workload envelope. Known distribution channels: huggingface, lm-studio.
Coding
SQwen3-Coder-Next is a specialized fit for Coding. It is a recent-generation family, which helps on current local SOTA workloads. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Context coverage stays within the requested workload envelope. Known distribution channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Agentic Coding
SDevstral 2 123B Instruct is a specialized fit for Agentic Coding. It is a recent-generation family, which helps on current local SOTA workloads. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Context coverage stays within the requested workload envelope. Known distribution channels: huggingface, lm-studio.
Reasoning
SDevstral 2 123B Instruct matches Reasoning and keeps a practical fit profile. It is a recent-generation family, which helps on current local SOTA workloads. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Context coverage stays within the requested workload envelope. Known distribution channels: huggingface, lm-studio.
RAG
SQwen 3.5 122B A10B matches RAG and keeps a practical fit profile. It is a recent-generation family, which helps on current local SOTA workloads. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Context coverage stays within the requested workload envelope. Known distribution channels: huggingface, lm-studio.
Qwen 3.5 122B A10B
Mistral Small 4 119BDevstral 2 123B Instruct
GPT-OSS 120B
Command A 111BPixtral Large 124BLeanstral 119B A6BQwen3-Coder-NextQwen 2.5 VL 72BQwen 3.6 35B A3BQwen3-Coder 30B A3B InstructQwen 3.5 27BQwen3-VL 30B A3B InstructQwen 3.5 35B A3BQwen 3.6 27BQwen 3 32BMagistral Small 2507Devstral Small 2 24B InstructQwen 3 30B A3B
Nemotron 3 Nano 30BQwen 3.5 9BQwen 3 14BDevstral Small 1.1
Phi-4-reasoning-plus 14B
Gemma 4 31BNemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BQwen 3 8BGPT-OSS 20BQwen 3.5 4B
EXAONE 4.0 32BGemma 4 26B A4BMinistral 3 14BNemotron Nano 8BPhi-4 Mini Reasoning 4B
Jina Embeddings v3
BGE M3Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
Kimi K2.5Kimi K2.6
DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek V4 Flash
GLM-5.1GLM-5DeepSeek V3.2Qwen 3 235B A22BQwen3-Coder 480B A35B InstructDeepSeek Coder V2 236BDeepSeek R1 671BDeepSeek V3.1 671BCasi al alcance
Modelos de alta calidad que necesitan un poco más de memoria
Image & Video Generation
52 of 52 models can generate images or video on your Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB
| Model | Max Resolution | Gen Time | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD TurboImage | 512×512 | 500ms | S |
| Stable Diffusion 1.5Image | 512×768 | ~1s | S |
| Realistic Vision v5.1Image | 512×768 | ~1s | S |
| DreamShaper 8Image | 512×768 | ~1s | S |
| LCM DreamShaper v7Image | 512×768 | 300ms | S |
| PixArt-SigmaImage | 1024×1024 | ~3.8s | S |
| FramePack I2VVideo | 1280×720 | ~7s/frame | S |
| SDXL TurboImage | 512×512 | 500ms | S |
| SDXL LightningImage | 1024×1024 | ~1.4s | S |
| Stable Diffusion XL 1.0Image | 1024×1024 | ~3.8s | S |
| Playground v2.5Image | 1024×1024 | ~5.7s | S |
| RealVisXL v5.0Image | 1024×1024 | ~4.3s | S |
| DreamShaper XLImage | 1024×1024 | ~4.3s | S |
| Juggernaut XL v9Image | 1024×1024 | ~4.3s | S |
| Animagine XL 3.1Image | 1024×1024 | ~4.3s | S |
| Pony Diffusion V6 XLImage | 1024×1024 | ~4.3s | S |
| Animagine XL 4.0Image | 1024×1024 | ~4.3s | S |
| Illustrious XLImage | 1024×1024 | ~4.3s | S |
| Wan Video 2.1 1.3BVideo | 480×832 | ~2.8s/frame | S |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumImage | 1024×1024 | ~6.7s | S |
| Flux.2 Klein 4BImage | 1024×1024 | ~1.1s | S |
| LTX Video 2BVideo | 1280×720 | ~3.3s/frame | S |
| KolorsImage | 1024×1024 | ~7.6s | S |
| Stable CascadeImage | 1024×1024 | ~9.5s | S |
| AuraFlow v0.3Image | 1536×1536 | ~17.1s | S |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeImage | 1024×1024 | ~20.9s | S |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large TurboImage | 1024×1024 | ~3.8s | S |
| CogVideoX 2BVideo | 720×480 | ~3.3s/frame | S |
| HunyuanVideoVideo | 720×1280 | ~7s/frame | S |
| ChromaImage | 1024×1024 | ~3.8s | S |
| Z-Image TurboImage | 1536×1536 | ~3.9s | S |
| Flux.1 DevImage | 1024×1024 | ~17.1s | S |
| Flux.1 SchnellImage | 1024×1024 | ~3.3s | S |
| LTX Video 13BVideo | 1280×720 | ~7s/frame | S |
| Flux.1 Kontext DevImage | 1024×1024 | ~19s | S |
| AnimateDiff v1.5.3Video | 512×768 | ~1.7s/frame | S |
| Cosmos Diffusion 7BVideo | 1024×576 | ~5.5s/frame | S |
| CogVideoX 5BVideo | 720×480 | ~4.8s/frame | S |
| Wan2.2 TI2V 5BVideo | 832×480 | ~4.8s/frame | S |
| Flux.2 Klein 9BImage | 1024×1024 | ~1.9s | S |
| Flux.1 Fill DevImage | 1024×1024 | ~16.2s | S |
| Mochi 1 PreviewVideo | 848×480 | ~6.3s/frame | S |
| HunyuanVideo 1.5Video | 720×1280 | ~5.8s/frame | S |
| Helios 14BVideo | 1280×720 | ~7.2s/frame | S |
| SkyReels V2 14BVideo | 1280×720 | ~7.2s/frame | S |
| Wan Video 2.1 14BVideo | 720×1280 | ~7.2s/frame | S |
| Wan Video 2.2 14BVideo | 720×1280 | ~7.2s/frame | S |
| Qwen ImageImage | 1024×1024 | ~6.4s | S |
| Qwen Image EditImage | 1024×1024 | ~6.4s | S |
| Flux.2 DevImage | 1024×1024 | ~3m 0s | S |
| MAGI-1Video | 1280×720 | ~8.9s/frame | S |
| HunyuanImage 3.0Image | 256×256 | ~11.3s | D |
Image models estimated at 1024×1024 (28 steps, FP16). Video models estimated at 768×512 (25 frames, 30 steps, FP16). Actual performance varies with runtime and system load.
Multi-GPU scaling
Scale out with multiple GPUs for larger models. PCIe interconnect with 20% scaling overhead.
| Config | Effective memory | Models that fit | Est. bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1× Intel | 128 GB | 351/374 | 3,200 GB/s |
| 2× Intel | 256 GB | 363/374 | 5,120 GB/s |
| 4× Intel | 512 GB | 371/374 | 10,240 GB/s |
Model counts use default quantization at coding workload settings. Multi-GPU scaling factor: 0.8× per additional GPU.
Upgrade paths
See what you unlock with more powerful hardware
Opciones de mejora
4× Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GBMulti-GPUDesbloquea 20 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.
Eleva la velocidad media de decodificación en torno a un 55% en los modelos que sí caben.
Infinity Fabric le da a esta ruta de scale-out una historia inter-GPU mejor que un montaje solo con PCIe.
~$15,000 MSRP
NVIDIA H200 141GBSiguiente nivelDesbloquea 2 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.
Eleva la velocidad media de decodificación en torno a un 32% en los modelos que sí caben.
~$30,000 MSRP
Desbloquea 12 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.
Eleva la velocidad media de decodificación en torno a un 34% en los modelos que sí caben.
~$20,000 MSRP
Desbloquea 13 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.
Eleva la velocidad media de decodificación en torno a un 51% en los modelos que sí caben.
~$8,000 MSRP
Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB (128 GB VRAM) can run these top models: Qwen 3.5 122B A10B (score: 99/100), Mistral Small 4 119B (score: 97/100), Devstral 2 123B Instruct (score: 96/100). See the full compatibility list above.
Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB has 128 GB of VRAM available for AI model inference. This determines which models and quantization levels you can run locally.
Yes, Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB is excellent for running LLMs locally with top compatibility scores above 80/100.
For coding on Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB, we recommend Qwen3-Coder-Next. It achieves 85.4 tokens per second with 256K context window. Qwen3-Coder-Next is a specialized fit for Coding. It is a recent-generation family, which helps on current local SOTA workloads. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Context coverage stays within the requested workload envelope. Known distribution channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
There are 4 upgrade path(s) from Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB: Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB, NVIDIA H200 141GB. Upgrading would unlock larger models and faster inference speeds.
Yes, Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB with 128 GB of usable memory can run Flux.1 Dev at FP16 natively. Flux is a 12B parameter diffusion transformer that produces high-quality images. You can also run the Schnell variant for faster generation.
Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB (128 GB VRAM) can handle various AI generation tasks beyond LLMs. For image generation, SDXL and Stable Diffusion 3.5 run well. Flux.1 Dev also runs natively for state-of-the-art image quality. For video, LTX Video 2.3 can generate short clips. Check the AI Capability Matrix above for detailed compatibility.
Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB is excellent for AI image generation. With 128 GB of usable memory, it runs all major diffusion models including Flux.1, SDXL, and Stable Diffusion 3.5 at full precision. You can generate high-resolution images quickly and even handle video generation models.
Yes, Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB with 128 GB of usable memory can run Qwen 3.5 27B at Q8 (near-lossless, ~28.9 GB) or even FP16 (~55.4 GB) depending on your context needs. This setup provides an excellent experience with this model. Use Ollama or vLLM for best results.
With 128 GB VRAM on Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB, use Q8_0 for most models — it is near-lossless and you have the memory for it. For 70B+ models, Q6_K offers excellent quality. Reserve Q4_K_M for 100B+ models or when you need maximum context length.
Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB already has strong memory bandwidth, so the next limit is often memory capacity and context headroom rather than raw decode speed. For local LLMs, fit first and bandwidth second is the right mental model.
Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB can be attractive on memory-per-dollar, but CUDA still has the broadest support across runtimes, kernels, guides, and community-tested local AI workflows. If your priority is the easiest setup and widest model compatibility, NVIDIA remains the safer choice. If your priority is value and you are comfortable with a narrower software stack, Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB can still be useful.
Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB supports up to 4× GPU scaling via Infinity Fabric. With 4× GPUs, you get 512 GB effective memory with a 0.8× scaling factor per GPU. This enables running models like Qwen 3.5 397B A17B and Kimi K2.5 that don't fit on a single card.
Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 128GB uses PCIe for multi-GPU communication, which has approximately 20% scaling overhead. For best multi-GPU performance, consider NVLink-equipped variants.
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