Intel just made an AI GPU with 480 GB of memory and no HBM.
The GPU D270 (codename Crescent Island) uses cheap LPDDR5X instead: up to 480 GB on one air-cooled 350 W PCIe card. That’s more than 3x an Nvidia H200’s 141 GB, enough for a 300B-parameter model on a single card.
The catch: 1.5 TB/s of memory bandwidth vs the H200’s 4.8 TB/s. Great for reading big prompts (prefill), slower at writing answers token by token.
Not a training chip. A cheap, massive inference chip. Would you run your models on it?
Sources: Intel press release (Oct 12, 2026), intc.com · VideoCardz · Tom’s Hardware · NVIDIA H200 spec page. Intel’s own card ships with 160 GB; partner cards go up to 480 GB.