Forbes October 11, 2024
Chasing Nvidia is hard; Team Green simultaneously countered with new software that can triple AI performance. Consequently, AMD’s performance claims are already out of date. And AMD compared it against the older Hopper, not Blackwell which will ship long before the MI325.
AMD continues to make excellent progress on the hardware and software front for advancing AI. However, AMD’s performance claims are unrealistic since they again did not use Nvidia’s optimization software. Nonetheless, the MI325 is fast and boasts a huge amount of HBM3E (288GB).
The 5th Gen EPYC
Before we dive into the AI accelerator, let’s look at the new 5th-gen EPYC CPU or Turin they just announced to see if they are maintaining their lead over Intel Xeon....