AMD Announces Radeon Instinct Including VEGA GPU powered MI25 Accelerator
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AlmondMan
Interesting. But it does say "2X Packed Math" on there - might just mean it's a card with 2 GPUs on there.
schmidtbag
It could mean that, but does it matter? This isn't a gaming GPU; on a server, things like Crossfire are kind of irrelevant.
Picolete
That card looks to long for HBM it might be double GPU
AlmondMan
I was thinking about the notion of using the listed comparison to gauge performance of Vega against Pascal. If its two chips, then a Vega is about the same as a Titan X.
kosh_neranek
And in other words, AMD is once again on par with nvidia although a year behind.. 🙁 STEP UP AMD,please! Give us ZENs for better price yet same power as Intel and try releasing your GPUs a bit earlier and I will after years get a full AMD setup..
fry178
doesnt look good.
or why does amd release info on 2 products, not available soon and/or not needed for 99.9% of the consumers out there (and most guru3d readers), like the 32C server cpus and now a pro-gpu.
Hey AMD, how about some info on a cpu supposed to be released NEXT MONTH.??
chispy
How about tomorrow 😀 , read here for complete information = http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=411238
schmidtbag
I know what you mean, but keep in mind we aren't their money-makers. They're trying to appeal to potential investors and large corporations that will rake in millions of dollars worth of sales. AMD will likely make more money from a single company than they will from all potential enthusiast customers combined. The to-be-released CPUs aren't mainstream products.
Ryu5uzaku
They really can't. Tech wise they were ahead for a long time. But they gained so little money when they did good that they fell kind of behind in the end tech wise. While Nvidia has been doing good even when doing bad.
AlmondMan
Really, you are asking this question in all seriousness?
cyclone3d
The slide says that the MI25 is "passively cooled" though.
So even if it is a dual chip setup, that is Titan X performance for a single chip when passively cooled.
What happens to max clocks when it is actively cooled?
PrMinisterGR
This is an announcement for HPC people so that they can plan their deployments accordingly. Vega is obviously a single chip card, the 2x Packed Math is a performance metric for doing a specific type of calculation, not an indicator that this is a dual GPU card. The more interesting bit was about memory, it refers to it as "high speed cache" or something like that. I believe we could be seeing mixed memory configurations.
On the other hand it might be just AMD announcing that the GPUs are more flexible than the competition in this regard (you need to combine this with news of the other HPC card they have with the SSD onboard).
12.5Tflops for <300W with passive cooling is impressive. If this is a 4096 shader configuration it has a clock of 1525MHz.
AlmondMan
It's meant to sit in a rackenclosure in a serverfarm. The passively cooled part makes sense in that environment as you don't want movable parts inside your servers if at all possible. And it's made possible by rackenclosures being fitted with highperformance, very noisy, fans back and front that make a constant high-airflow through the cases.
PrMinisterGR
Or it might be a mixed solution for the HPC crowd. 16GB of HBM and 32GB of GDDR5x would make a lot of sense for some configurations. The memory info AMD gives for it also mentions "high bandwidth caches and fast memory".
Dygaza
Guy at Anandtech forums asked from Koduri in twitter if MI25 is single or dual chip. Turns out it's single chip.
https://twitter.com/GFXChipTweeter/status/808384288530067456
PrMinisterGR
Turns out "it might be dual, it might be single, it might be GDDR5x, it might be HBM, it might be cool, it might be hot" WCCF crap was wrong.
What a surprise.
fry178
@schmidtbag
i know, i know. just funny that they wanna "get somewhere" with the consumer stuff, yet i dont see them do whats needed.
@chispy
i know about the even since it was first announced.
dont really care for another amd slide/10s of vid showing one benchmark.
if your product can keep up with the competition/beat it, why hide the facts?
how many info have we seen from Nv way before their last release?
how much info was out before release of the 4oo series?
and how did they perform vs what was shown to "us" in the month/weeks before?
reminds me of Lexus taking 10y to build the LFA to be able to compete with porsche/lambo/ferrari etc, only to see their taillights once they released the next "years" model.
chispy
+1 This i agree ...
pharma
It's unfortunate the benchmark slide is using GP102 (Titan Pascal) and Maxwell since they lack the double rate FP16. They should have compared "Radeon Instinct" against P100 which is Nvidia's product for deep learning ...
