AMD reveals new GPU line for servers

AMD has revealed three new GPU server accelerators, promising a "dramatic increase" in performance, efficiency, and ease of implementation for deep learning and HPC solutions. The new line of GPU server accelerators comprises of Radeon Instinct MI25, Radeon Instinct MI8, and Radeon Instinct MI6 and will be paired with AMD’s open ROCm 1.6 software platform. The Radeon Instinct MI25 accelerator is based on the "Vega" GPU architecture and comes with 14nm FinFET process. AMD says it is "the world’s ultimate training accelerator for large-scale machine intelligence and deep learning datacenter applications." The Radeon Instinct MI8 accelerator, based on Fiji architecture,… [Continue Reading]