AMD Launches AI Chip To Rival Nvidia's Blackwell (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/10/2143241/amd-launches-ai-chip-to-rival-nvidias-blackwell
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/10/amd-launches-mi325x-ai-chip-to-rival-nvidias-blackwell-.html
> The Instinct MI325X, as the chip is called, will start production before the end of 2024, AMD said Thursday during an event announcing the new product. If AMD's AI chips are seen by developers and cloud giants as a close substitute for Nvidia's products, it could put pricing pressure on Nvidia, which has enjoyed roughly 75% gross margins while its GPUs have been in high demand over the past year. In the past few years, Nvidia has dominated the majority of the data center GPU market, but AMD is historically in second place. Now, AMD is aiming to take share from its Silicon Valley rival or at least to capture a big chunk of the market, which it says will be worth $500 billion by 2028.
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> AMD didn't reveal new major cloud or internet customers for its Instinct GPUs at the event, but the company has previously disclosed that both Meta and Microsoft buy its AI GPUs and that OpenAI uses them for some applications. The company also did not disclose pricing for the Instinct MI325X, which is typically sold as part of a complete server. With the launch of the MI325X, AMD is accelerating its product schedule to release new chips on an annual schedule to better compete with Nvidia and take advantage of the boom in AI chips. The new AI chip is the successor to the MI300X, which started shipping late last year. AMD's 2025 chip will be called MI350, and its 2026 chip will be called MI400, the company said.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/10/amd-launches-mi325x-ai-chip-to-rival-nvidias-blackwell-.html
[2] https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/03/18/2149257/nvidia-reveals-blackwell-b200-gpu-the-worlds-most-powerful-chip-for-ai
Heard it all before (Score:2)
> AMD is historically in second place. Now, AMD is aiming to take share from its Silicon Valley rival
They've been saying that with every next release for decades, yet all they ever do is win is on bang for buck, never outright high end performance.
Also, even after decades, the reliability and stability of AMDs drivers still suck compared to nVidia's.
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> Also, even after decades, the reliability and stability of AMDs drivers still suck compared to nVidia's.
The mainlined linux driver is fine, it was driver support that got me to switch from nvidia to ati well over a decade ago.
In the 3080/6800 generation performance was on par and I could have bought either, but 6800 had less headaches and longer support being in mainline.
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MI300 sold really well and made them a lot of money. Where's the problem?
Re:Too Bad AMD's Driver Support Sucks Big Time (Score:4, Interesting)
I tried to support AMD's open source strategy but ROCm was always their redheaded stepchild.
There's a reason CUDA won the contest and it's not because nVidia did everything they could do to support developers, but they did enough.
One could argue that understaffing the ROCm team cost AMD hundreds of billions.
IIRC last I saw their comms they had ten team members worldwide, two of whom worked on linux and maybe a half-timer too?
That was a while ago but it was a critical time.
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And what would those cards be? Also are you aware of what MI-series products are and what they do? Sounds like you had a farm full of Radeon VII or something...