#Fp64 props pro

In workloads that can’t take advantage of CDNA 2’s architectural improvements, MI210 is not going to be a step up from MI100.Īll of this underscores the overall similarity between the CDNA (1) and CDNA 2 architectures, and how developers need to make use of CDNA 2’s new features to get the most out of the hardware. In practice, MI210 has more memory and more memory bandwidth, so it should still have the performance edge the real world, but it’s going to be close. While clocked higher, the slightly reduced number of CUs relative to the MI100 means that for some workloads, the old accelerator is, at least on paper, a bit faster. In regards to performance, the use of a single Aldebaran die does make for some odd comparisons to AMD’s previous-generation PCIe card, the Radeon Instinct MI100. AMD is using the same 3.2GHz HBM2e memory here, so the overall memory bandwidth for the chip is 1.6 TB/second. As MI250 paired 64GB of HBM2e memory with each GCD – for a total of 128GB of memory – MI210 brings that down to 64GB for the single GCD. So workload scalability aside, the performance of the MI210 is for all practical purposes half of a MI250. The CNDA 2 Graphics Compute Die features the same 104 enabled CUs as on MI250, with the chip running at the same peak clockspeed of 1.7GHz. The net result is that the MI210 is essentially half of an MI250, both in regards to physical hardware and expected performance. So they’ve done so by ditching the second on-package die. With MI250(X) requiring 560W in the OAM form factor, AMD essentially needed to halve the hardware anyhow to get things down to 300W for a PCIe card. Whereas those two parts were based on a pair of Aldebaran (CDNA 2) dies in an MCM configuration on a single package, for MI210 AMD is paring everything back to a single die and related hardware.

Starting with a look at the top-line specifications, the MI210 is an interesting variant to the existing MI250 accelerators. Overall, the MI200 is being launched widely today as part of AMD moving the entire MI200 product stack to general availability for OEM customers.

Bringing the CDNA 2 architecture into a PCIe card, the MI210 is being aimed at customers who are after the MI200 family’s HPC and machine learning performance, but need it in a standardized form factor for mainstream servers. And today, AMD wants to get in on the game as well, with the release of the PCIe version of their MI200 accelerator family, the MI210.įirst unveiled alongside the MI250 and MI250X back in November, when AMD initially launched the Instinct MI200 family, the MI210 is the third and final member of AMD’s latest generation of GPU-based accelerators. That GPU also happens to offer Tensor and RT cores (edit: it does not have RT cores, we blanked!), as well as 32GB of HBM2, but it’s still hard to ignore that kind of price hike.With both GDC and GTC going on this week, this is a big time for GPUs of all sorts.

#Fp64 props pro

While you can potentially search used bins for older GPUs that happen to have decent double-precision performance, on the current GPU market, the only way you’re coming close to the Pro VII’s level of FP64 performance is to opt for the Quadro GV100, which costs about four-times as much. The Pro VII uncaps it the rest of the way, a la the Radeon Instinct cards, and ultimately delivers 6.5 TFLOPS of double-precision performance. The Radeon VII itself had partially unlocked FP64, at 1:4 the ratio of FP32. What truly sets the Pro VII apart from the crowd is its unlocking of double-precision (FP64) performance. AMD says that its Pro VII offers a bit more single-precision performance, and not to mention, PCIe 4.0 support – something last year’s Radeon VII did not. Its closest competitor is NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX 5000, which also includes 16GB of error correction memory (albeit with less bandwidth), but costs $400 more than the Pro VII. Vega 5th-gen GCN = WX 8200~9100 & Pro VIIĪMD is trying to make a really big statement with the Pro VII. It goes even further than that, though.įirst, here’s an overall look at AMD’s current lineup, with the Radeon Pro VII joined in:ĥ GDDR6 (ECC) 6 GDDR5X (ECC) 7 GDDR5 (ECC) 8 HBM2 (ECC) It also has 3,840 cores, which might lead you to believe this is realllly similar to the Radeon VII, just with pro unlocked features. This card is built on top of the compute-focused Vega architecture, not Navi, and like last year’s VII, it offers 16GB of HBM2 memory, which provides a healthy 1TB/s bandwidth. The fact that this is called Radeon Pro VII might give you some hints as to what’s under the hood.