AMD[1] on Tuesday unveiled[2] the Radeon Instinct MI60 and MI50, a pair of accelerators designed for next-generation deep learning, HPC, cloud computing and rendering applications. AMD says they are the world's first 7nm data center GPUs.
The MI60 delivers up to 7.4 TFLOPS of peak FP64 performance, which should allow scientists and researchers to more efficiently process HPC applications. The use cases, AMD notes, span a range of industries including life sciences, energy, finance, automotive, aerospace and defense. The MI50 delivers up to 6.7 TFLOPS of FP64 peak performance.
The accelerators provide flexible mixed-precision FP16, FP32 and INT4/INT8 capabilities for dynamic workloads, such as training complex neural networks or running inference against those trained networks.
"Legacy GPU architectures limit IT managers from effectively addressing the constantly evolving demands of processing and analyzing huge datasets for modern cloud datacenter workloads," David Wang, SVP of engineering for the Radeon Technologies Group at AMD, said in a statement.
The accelerators feature two Infinity Fabric Links per GPU deliver up to 200 GB/s of peer-to-peer bandwidth, for communications up to 6X faster than PCIe Gen 3 interconnect speeds.. This also enables the connection of up to four GPUs in a hive ring configuration.
They are also the first GPUs capable of supporting next-generation PCIe 4.0 interconnect, AMD says, which is up to 2X faster than other x86 CPU-to-GPU interconnect technologies.
The MI60 provides 32GB of HBM2 (second-generation High-Bandwidth Memory) Error-correcting code (ECC) memory, and the MI50 provides 16GB of HBM2 ECC memory.
The MI60 is expected to ship to data center customers by the end of 2018, while the MI50 is expected to begin shipping by the end of Q1 2019.
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