AMD introduced the Instinct MI210 Computing Accelerator - CDNA 2 architecture and 64 GB HBM2E

AMD has unveiled the Instinct MI210 gas pedal designed for high-performance computing applications. The new product features a single GPU, which is primarily different from the flagship Instinct MI250 and MI250X introduced earlier.

The Instinct MI210 is based on a graphics processor with CDNA 2 architecture, which, unlike the gaming RDNA 2 in Radeon graphics cards, is aimed specifically at computing. Used chip with 104 processing units, which have 6656 stream processors. On a single chip substrate is located 64 GB of HBM2E memory with a 4096-bit interface and support for ECC. The memory bandwidth is equal to 1.6 Tbytes per second. The gas pedal is made as an expansion card with PCIe 4.0 interface. New product is equipped with Infinity Fabric interface for bundling two or four cards in one system. The Instinct MI210 only has one 8-pin connector for extra power so it can only draw 225W. At the same time, the TDP level is 300 watts. The novelty is equipped with a passive radiator, the air through which has to be driven by server fans. As for performance, AMD claims very high performance for the Instinct MI210. In vector FP 32 and FP64 operations, performance reaches 22.6 Tflops, and in matrix FP32 and FP64 & ; 45.3 Tflops. FP16 and bfloat16 operations have a performance level of 181 Tflops, and INT8 & ; 181 Tops. AMD also points out that the MI210 significantly outperforms its direct competitor, the NVIDIA A100 40GB, in high performance computing. AMD said that Instinct MI210 gas pedals will appear in systems from ASUS, Colfax, Dell, Exxact, Gigabyte, HPE, KOI, Lenovo, Nor-Tech Supermicro and Penguin in the coming months. A bit more details about the new product can be found on our sister site ServerNews.

AMD introduced the Instinct MI200 Series Server Computing Accelerators

AMD today held a presentation to unveil its first exascale general-purpose Instinct MI200 series graphics gas pedals. The new products are designed for high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm acceleration.

The series includes two gas pedal models, the Instinct MI250 and Instinct MI250X. AMD calls the latter the highest-performing graphics gas pedal of its class. According to the vendor, the Instinct MI250X gas pedal provides 4.9 times more performance than competing solutions in double precision computing (FP64) and a peak theoretical performance above 380 Tflops in half precision computing (FP16), such as machine learning and neural networking workloads. Features of the Instinct MI250 and Instinct MI250X GPUs include the new 2.5D Elevated Fanout Bridge (EFB) package, which involves using a «suspended» over the substrate bridge to connect the GPU to HBM memory. Two CDNA 2 architecture-based GPU crystals connected to each other and other GPU elements via AMD Infinity Fabric 3rd generation bus are used in gas pedal GPUs. The Instinct MI250 graphics chip features 208 processing units for a total of 13 312 stream processors. The Instinct MI250X has 220 GPUs with a total of 14,080 stream processors. Both models are equipped with 128 GB of HBM2e video memory. Together with the hardware novelties, the company introduced Radeon Open eCosystem 5.0 (ROCm 5.0) & ; a hyper-scalable open-source platform designed to accelerate computing by combining chips of different classes (CPU, GPU, FPGA, etc.), which does not depend on programming language. AMD Instinct MI250 and Instinct MI250X computing gas pedals are already available in OCP Accelerator Module (OAM) format. The company also plans to release the new products in the form of expansion cards called AMD Instinct MI210, which will be designed for OEM servers. Instinct MI250X gas pedals have already appeared as part of HPE's Cray EX supercomputer. In the first quarter of next year, the new series of gas pedals will be available to AMD's major OEM and ODM partners, including ASUS, ATOS, Dell Technologies, Gigabyte, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and Supermicro.