Compute
The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia
Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. …
MI300X
AI
AMD Breaks $1 Billion In Datacenter GPU Sales In Q2
As expected, AMD has once again raised its forecast for sales of its Instinct MI300 series GPUs, and as it has broken through $1 billion in revenues for its “Antares” line of compute engines in the second quarter, it is now expecting to surpass $4.5 billion in sales of these devices for all of 2024. …
AI
Stacking Up AMD Versus Nvidia For Llama 3.1 GPU Inference
Training AI models is expensive, and the world can tolerate that to a certain extent so long as the cost inference for these increasingly complex transformer models can be driven down. …
Compute
How The “Antares” MI300 GPU Ramp Will Save AMD’s Datacenter Business
It is beginning to look like AMD’s Instinct datacenter GPU accelerator business is going to do a lot better in 2024 than many had expected and that the company’s initial forecasts given back in October anticipated. …
Compute
AMD Is The Undisputed Datacenter GPU Performance Champ – For Now
There is nothing quite like great hardware to motivate people to create and tune software to take full advantage of it during a boom time. …
AI
AMD’s Instinct GPU Business Is Coiled To Spring
Timing is a funny thing. The summer of 2006 when AMD bought GPU maker ATI Technologies for $5.6 billion and took on both Intel in CPUs and Nvidia in GPUs was the same summer when researchers first started figuring out how to offload single-precision floating point math operations from CPUs to Nvidia GPUs to try to accelerate HPC simulation and modeling workloads. …
Compute
The Third Time Charm Of AMD’s Instinct GPU
The great thing about the Cambrian explosion in compute that has been forced by the end of Dennard scaling of clock frequencies and Moore’s Law lowering in the cost of transistors is not only that we are getting an increasing diversity of highly tuned compute engines and broadening SKU stacks across those engines, but also that we are getting many different interpretations of the CPU, GPU, DPU, and FPGA themes. …