AMD’s on the path to Exascale computing with their new Radeon Instinct MI100 HPC GPU
AMD’s on the path to Exascale computing with their new Instinct MI100 HPC GPU
Today, AMD has revealed its Instinct MI100, AMD’s first CDNA (Compute DNA) product. AMD claims that this GPU is the “World’s Fastest HPC GPU”, promising up to 2.1x peak performance per $ when compared to Nvidia’s Ampere A100.  Â
CDNA is the graphics architecture which places AMD on the road to exascale computing. AMD has already been tapped to create several exascale supercomputers, and the power of EPYC processors and CDNA graphics is what will bring AMD and their customers to new computational heights.
The Instinct MI100 offers users 120 Compute Units and 7,680 Stream Processors, using TSMC’s 7nm FinFET manufacturing processor deliver up to 184.6 TFLOPs of half-precision performance within a TBP of 300W.Â
The Instinct MI100 features 32GB of HBM2 memory which offers a total bandwidth of 1.23 TB/s. This HBM memory performance is achieved across four 8GB HBM2 memory stacks.Â
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When compared to the company’s older compute architectures, the Instinct MI100 and its CDNA architecture deliver AMD a transformative performance leap. With the company’s new Matrix technology, AMD can deliver up to a 7x boost in AI workloads over their older offerings with mixed-precision FP16, and up to 4x fast GPU-to-GPU performance over their new Infinity Fabric architecture.Â
With their CDNA architecture, AMD’s promising more raw performance than Nvidia in terms of mixed-precision compute at lower power levels. AMD’s new ROCm 4.0 software stack should also help deliver strong developer support on the platform. AMD has also been working with DELL, Gigabyte, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and SuperMicro to deliver Instinct MI100-powered systems.Â
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With their CDNA architecture and Instinct MI100 accelerator, AMD plans to compete with Nvidia’s HPC lineup and gain market share within this lucrative section of the HPC market. These products should generate notable market share gains for AMD within the HPC market and generate for the company strong revenues.Â
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