By: Craig Kennedy
AMD Instinct MI300X—A New Challenger to Nvidia
On Tuesday June 13th, AMD unveiled its new MI300X AI chip, a powerful and innovative GPU designed for generative AI applications. The MI300X is AMD’s latest attempt to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI accelerator market, which is expected to grow from $30 billion this year to over $150 billion in 2027, according to AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su.
Powerful Specs
The MI300X contains 153 billion transistors and can support up to 192 GB of high-bandwidth HBM3 memory and has a memory bandwidth of 5.2 TB/s. Comparing this with Nvidia’s flagship H100 GPU, the MI300X has 2.4x the memory and 55% higher memory bandwidth.
AMD Instinct Platform—There’s Strength in Numbers
AMD also announced the AMD Instinct Platform, built on eight MI300X accelerators into an industry-standard design. This hardware solution will have a total of over 1.5 TB HBM3 memory, making it a powerful hardware platform for AI inference and training.
What About the Software
AMD made several announcements on the software front as well, partnering with PyTorch and Hugging Face. The partnership with PyTorch ensures that any AI model or application developed with PyTorch 2.0 or later will run natively on the AMD Instinct GPU accelerators.
Bottom Line
This is a powerful addition to the AMD GPU offering and is one of the first possible alternative to Nvidia’s domination of the Generative AI GPU market. The MI300X will be available in limited release later this year and generally available in 2024.
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Aragon Research’s 2023 Technology Arc
Aragon’s CEO and Lead Analyst, Jim Lundy introduces Aragon Research’s 2023 Technology Arc.
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