At the “Next Horizon” event, AMD presented the capabilities of the new generation Radeon Instinct, manufactured in 7 nm. The MI60 graphics card is the first of its kind to be produced worldwide with a 7 nm node.
Radeon Instinct of 7 nm based on Vega is 25% faster and consumes 50% less power.
AMD is able to take full advantage of the Vega architecture by shifting to the desired 7 nm. This allows them to increase efficiency by 25% while consuming 50% less power at the same frequency. AMD can also integrate more than 13.2 billion transistors into a 331mm2 matrix.
This graphics processor has 32GB of HBM2 memory with built-in error detection and correction with ECC. This is an important step over the 16GB HBM2 of the Radeon Instinct MI25.
The MI60 is not only the industry’s first 7nm graphics processor but also the industry’s first PCIe 4.0-enabled graphics processor. This corresponds to 64 GB/s bidirectional bandwidth from the CPU to the GPU. It is also capable of operating at 100 GB/s per link for GPU-to-GPU bandwidth. While Vega’s design remains relatively the same with 64 calculation units and 4096 SPs, it also includes additional manuals for deep learning and optimizations for the HPC market.
AMD states that the graphics card has 7.4 TFLOPS in the Double Precision FP64 and 14.7 TFLOPS in the FP32 with simple precision calculation. In terms of maximum theoretical computing power, AMD says it achieves 118 TFLOPS at INT4.
The MI60 also looks good in multi-GPU configurations. Two MI60s almost double performance to 1.99x, while four GPUs deliver 3.98x performance and eight GPUs deliver up to 7.64x performance.
The Radeon Instinct MI60 is expected to be available later this year.