AMD announces GPU "Radeon Instinct MI 25" adopting Vega architecture with performance superior to Titan X, machine learning target

Amidst the release of the consumer graphics board adopted by the new architecture "Vega", AMD is a system for machine learning towards the high-performance computing market "Radeon InstinctWe announced. GPU accelerator adopting Vega architecture "MI 25"NVIDIA's high-end GPU"Titan X"It has clarified that it has the performance that it exceeds.

Introducing Radeon Instinct
http://radeon.com/en-us/instinct/

AMD announces first VEGA accelerator: RADEON INSTINCT MI 25 for deep-learning | VideoCardz.com
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AMD Announces Radeon Instinct: GPU Accelerators for Deep Learning, Coming In 2017
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10905/amd-announces-radeon-instinct-deep-learning-2017

Prior to announcing the consumer Vega adoption GPU, AMD announced Vega's product group "Radeon Instinct" for the high-performance computing market.


AMD believes that "demand for the current cloud will change to demand for services that utilize machine learning, deep learning and neural networks" in the future. In other words, AMD predicts that there is a new demand for high performance machines centered on servers, shifting from conventional CPU-centric computing to heterogeneous computing centered on GPU .


Therefore, AMD will adopt the rival NVIDIA's Pascal architecture that has already been put into the deep learning market by providing services packaged hardware and software to meet the demand for new GPUs such as machine learning use "Tesla P 100Stance to pursue the system. In terms of software, we combine the open source library MIOpen (Machine Learning Open) with the AMD ROCm platform.


And, three kinds of new GPU (accelerator) corresponding to Radeon Instinct are announced. "MI 25" of the high-end model adopted HBM 2 hit 25 TFLOPS with the calculation performance of the half precision floating point number (FP 16), exceeding 21.2 TFLOPS of Tesla P 100.


In addition, it is said that the short base model "Fi 8" adopted by Fiji rather than Vega also has performance that is superior to Pascal's Titan X.


In combination with the CPU of the new microarchitecture "Zen", Radeon Instinct will be released in 2017.


Although Vega adopted products announced this time are accelerators without video output function, demonstrations on Vega adopted graphic board for consumers are also released. In the following movie, it is possible to see how to move DOOM (4K · 60 fps) using Vulkan with one Vega adopted graphic board.

AMD Vega vs Doom 4K (Vulkan) - YouTube


AMD started from 3 pm on December 13, 2016 (6 am on the 14th of Japan time)New Horizon"The next generation" Zen "processor will be announced in this event. There may be an announcement about the graphic board adopted by Vega within the same event.

New Horizon
http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/new-horizon