Sapphire has expanded its range of embedded gear for edge computing, with two products that take advantage of AMD’s newly expanded range of Ryzen AI Embedded P100 processors. These CPUs offer up to 12 Zen 5 CPU cores, along with an RDNA 3.5 GPU with 8 WGPs (work Group Processors), and an NPU (neural processing unit) rated at 50 TOPS.
One such product is the Sapphire Rave2 Edge+ VPR-7P100, which sees the firm combining one of the latest AMD P100 CPUs with an AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 (2VE3358) SoC (system on chip), providing another avenue for AI work. All this is shoehorned into a mini-ITX motherboard, which also features 4,266MT/s LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 flash storage.
In addition, Sapphire is also now offering a mini-ITX motherboard that just offers a P100 Series processor, with its Zen 5 cores, RDNA 3.5 GPU, and 50 TOPS NPU, but without the Arm-based Versal chip. Sapphire says this board can support up to 96GB of 5,600MT/s DDR5 memory, and that the P100 chip can be configured with a TDP between 15 and 45W.
Other features on the x86-only board include DisplayPort with eDP/LVDS, both 1Gb and 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, USB4, M.2 expansion, and TPM 2.0 support.
Sapphire says it’s targeting its latest embedded tech at “latency-sensitive embedded applications that require both compute and hardware-level workload acceleration,” giving examples of the automotive, robotics, and aerospace industries. “Together, these platforms provide flexibility, high performance, AI acceleration, and long-term reliability across demanding embedded applications.”
Adapting to the AI revolution, Sapphire’s commercial portfolio has expanded quickly, with today’s releases building upon a growing range of Edge+ motherboards, as well as an entirely new line of dedicated Edge AI mini PCs.
If you’re more interested in Sapphire’s gaming gear, check out our Sapphire Pure X870A WiFi 7 review, where we take a look at its classy, silvery white motherboard. You’ll also want to take a look at our Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT review, as this is one of our favourite graphics cards at the moment.
