AMD: On Track to Improve Accelerated Datacenter Efficiency by 30x by 2025

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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-on-track-with-30x25-initiative

The amount of data generated by people and machines has increased exponentially and this requires a steady increase of datacenter compute performance. To meet the requirements of next-generation datacenters, AMD last year set itself a goal to increase efficiency of its accelerated datacenter platforms used for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads by 30 times by 2025 when compared to its 2020 platforms.

This week the company shared its progress, and it appears that AMD is advancing quite well. The energy efficiency of its accelerated platform for AI and HPC — which includes EPYC processors and Instinct compute GPUs — has improved by 6.79 times from the 2020 baseline.

For those who do not remember, AMD's baseline machine for its 30x25 comparisons is a server based on its EPYC 7742 CPU (64C/128T, 2.25GHz – 3.40GHz, 256MB, 225W) and four Instinct MI50 compute GPUs (5th Gen GCN, 3840 stream processors at 1450 MHz – 1725 MHz, 300W). This machine produced 5.26 TFLOPS per MI50 on 4k matrix DGEMM with trigonometric data initialization, and 21.6 TFLOPS of FP16 on 4k matrices while consuming 1582W.

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AMD: On Track to Improve Accelerated Datacenter Efficiency by 30x by 2025

Efficiency of AMD's CPUs and GPUs in AI and HPC applications increasing.

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[cruelsister]

Surprised that this article missed mentioning the reason (other than EPYC which was mentioned) why data centers are moving to AMD in droves. Lisa bought Xilinx last year and the FPGA field-programmable gate array) chip so acquired has massively increased both the efficiency and computational power of the data centers. And this switch to AMD products can be verified by the anemic results from Intel (last week) in this area.

Lisa Su is a Genius (and Intel's worst nightmare).

 

[Mjolnir]

Surprised that this article missed mentioning the reason (other than EPYC which was mentioned) why data centers are moving to AMD in droves. Lisa bought Xilinx last year and the FPGA field-programmable gate array) chip so acquired has massively increased both the efficiency and computational power of the data centers. And this switch to AMD products can be verified by the anemic results from Intel (last week) in this area.

Lisa Su is a Genius (and Intel's worst nightmare).

AMD’s Xilinx-enhanced Epycs will get datacenters' attention

Same goes for Arm, for the same reason: Power efficiency

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