AMX-FP16 Turbocharges Open Image Denoise on Granite Rapids, Delivering 4x Gains
Intel Open Image Denoise 2.4 adds AMX-FP16 support for its ray-tracing denoising pipeline on Xeon Granite Rapids, reportedly delivering more than four times the performance at about 69% of the power in the author’s benchmarks; the AMX-FP16 optimization targets half-precision workloads and broadens AMX usage beyond AI, with GPU-side updates and wider compatibility for rendering tools like Blender, RenderMan and friends.