Overview
- AMD has launched its Instinct MI300-series accelerators, including the MI300X and MI300A, aimed at bolstering its standing in the AI and high performance computing (HPC) community.
- The MI300X GPUs reportedly exceed the speed of Nvidia's H100, with FP8 performance of 2.6 petaFLOPS, making it 32 percent faster than Nvidia's H100.
- The MI300A, a datacenter chip, combines Zen 4 CPU cores and CDNA 3 graphics cores, and is rated for 122.6 teraFLOPS of double precision performance, 1.8x that of the H100.
- AMD's MI300-series parts are already being deployed by Microsoft, Oracle, and the DoE's Lawrence Livermore National Labs.
- AMD also introduced its AMD Ryzen 8040 Series processors for AI-based laptops, with the performance of the 8040 expected to be 1.4 times better than current Ryzen chips.