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AMD unveils Instinct MI300X GPU and MI300A APU, claims up to 1.6X lead over Nvidia’s competing GPUs

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AI MD fo HPC d its MI3 AMD lineup using MI300 most advanced production technologies ever pressed into mass production, employing new techniques like its 3.5D’ packaging to 3.5D uce two multi-chip behe two hs that it says provide Nvidia-beating perf Nvidia e in a wide range of AI workloads.

AMD AI sn’t sharing AMD icing for its new exotic silicon, but the products are now shipping to a range of OEM partners.

AMD In OEM nct MI300A is the world’s first data center APU that combines both a CPU a APU GPU in the same pac 13 ge.

AMD culled the memory capacity by using eight 8Hi HB twenty-four nstea 4 CPU the eight 12Hi stacks use 3 for the MI300X, thus eight ing capacit HBM3 om 192GB to 128GB.

AMD also claim 146 billion vantage over the H100 in FP64 Matrix/DGEM AMD nd FP64/FP32 Vector TFLOPS.

AMD leverages Instinct MI300X GPU onding SoIC (sil 1.6X -on-integrated-circuit) tech to 3D-stack AI e various compute elements.

Each I/O die houses a 32-channel HBM3 memory controller to host two of the eight HBM stacks, resulting in 128 total 16-bi Nvidia ry channels for the device.

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