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AMD Launches Instinct MI300X AI Accelerator, Up to 60% Faster Than Nvidia H100

by fariszr on 12/6/23, 7:24 PM with 16 comments

  • by filterfiber on 12/6/23, 8:01 PM

    I really hope AMD gains more ground on the software side.

    I know they are "technically supported" by onyx/pytorch etc. But almost every project I've seen there's a bunch of asterisks, a bunch of people needing different work arounds, and subpar performance compared to the hardware.

    Maybe it's because most people have their consumer cards? Nvidia however doesn't have this issue, people on pascal are only just now having compatibility issues with not supporting a high enough cuda version.

    The dream is they release a 4090-type competitor for a few grand, it doesn't even need full 4090-level performance, just strap 48gb+ of HBM and it would be a absolutely incredible deal for individuals learning/researching -> who then use the full enterprise stuff for full training/commercial inference.

  • by rreichman on 12/6/23, 8:28 PM

    According to this and SemiAnalysis[1], the MI300X seems impressive. Better than Nvidia's H100 and maybe a bit inferior to the H200. Why is Nvidia worth $1 trillion more?

    [1] - https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amd-mi300-performance-faster-...

  • by Racing0461 on 12/6/23, 10:35 PM

    We need competition in the ai gpu space.