Radeon Instinct

AMD Radeon Instinct is AMD's brand of deep learning oriented GPUs.[1][2] It replaced AMD's FirePro S brand in 2016. Compared to the Radeon brand of mainstream consumer/gamer products, the Radeon Instinct branded products are intended to accelerate deep learning, artificial neural network, and high-performance computing/GPGPU applications.

AMD Radeon Instinct
Design firmAdvanced Micro Devices
Introduced2016
TypeServers

The Radeon Instinct product line directly competes with Nvidia's Tesla and Intel Xeon Phi lines of deep learning and GPGPU cards.

Since MI100 introduction in November 2020, the Radeon Instinct family is known as AMD Instinct, dropping Radeon brand from its name.

Products

The three initial Radeon Instinct products were announced in December 2016, with each based on a different architecture.

MI6

The MI6 is a passively cooled, Polaris 10 based card with 16 GB of GDDR5 memory and with a <150 W TDP.[1][2] At 5.7 TFLOPS (FP16 and FP32), the MI6 is expected to be used primarily for inference, rather than neural network training. The MI6 has a peak double precision (FP64) compute performance of 358 GFLOPS.[3]

MI8

The MI8 is a Fiji based card, analogous to the R9 Nano, and expected to have a <175W TDP.[1] The MI8 has 4 GB of High Bandwidth Memory. At 8.2 TFLOPS (FP16 and FP32), the MI8 is marked toward inference. The MI8 has a peak (FP64) double precision compute performance 512 GFLOPS.[4]

MI25

The MI25 is a Vega based card, utilizing HBM2 memory. The MI25 performance is expected to be 12.3 TFLOPS using FP32 numbers. In contrast to the MI6 and MI8, the MI25 is able to increase performance when using lower precision numbers, and accordingly is expected to reach 24.6 TFLOPS when using FP16 numbers. The MI25 is rated at <300W TDP with passive cooling. The MI25 also provides 768 GFLOPS peak double precision (FP64) at 1/16th rate.[5]

Software

MxGPU

The MI6, MI8, and MI25 products all support AMD's MxGPU virtualization technology, enabling sharing of GPU resources across multiple users.[1][6]

MIOpen

MIOpen is AMD's deep learning library to enable GPU acceleration of deep learning.[1] Much of this extends the GPUOpen's Boltzmann Initiative software.[6] This is intended to compete with the deep learning portions of Nvidia's CUDA library. It supports the deep learning frameworks: Theano, Caffe, TensorFlow, MXNet, The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, Torch, and Chainer. Programming is supported in OpenCL and Python, in addition to supporting the compilation of CUDA through AMD's Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability and Heterogeneous Compute Compiler.

Chipset table

Model
(codename)
Release date Architecture
& Fab
Transistors
& Die Size
Core Fillrate[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] Processing power[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 4]
(GFLOPS)
Memory TBP Bus
interface
Config[lower-alpha 5] Clock[lower-alpha 1] (MHz) Texture
(GT/s)
Pixel
(GP/s)
Half Single Double Bus type
& width
Size
(GiB)
Clock
(MT/s)
Bandwidth
(GB/s)
Radeon Instinct MI6
(Polaris 10) [1][7][8][9][10]
December 2016 GCN 4th gen
14 nm
5.7×109
232 mm2
2304:144:32
36 CU
1120
1233
177.6 39.46 5800 5800 358 GDDR5
256-bit
16 7000 224 150 W PCIe 3.0 x16
Radeon Instinct MI8
(Fiji XT) [1][7][8][11][12]
GCN 3rd gen
28 nm
8.9×109
596 mm2
4096:256:64
64 CU
1000 256.0 64.0 8200 8200 512 HBM
4096-bit
4 1000 512 175 W
Radeon Instinct MI25
(Vega 10 XT)[1][7][8][13][14][15]
GCN 5th gen
14 nm
12.5×109
510 mm2
4096:256:64
64 CU
1400
1500
384 96.0 24600 12300 768 HBM2
2048-bit
16 1704 436.2 300 W
Radeon Instinct MI25 mxgpu
(Prototype, June 2017)[16]
Unreleased
12.5×109
510 mm2

4096:256:64
64 CU
1400
1500

384

96.0

24600

12300

768

16

436.2
Radeon Instinct MI50
(Vega 20 GL)[17][18][19][20]
November 2018 GCN 5th gen
7 nm
13.2×109
331 mm2
3840:240:-
60 CU
1450
1725
348
414
- 26500 13300 6600 HBM2
4096-bit
16 or 32[21] 2000 1024 PCIe 4.0 x16
Radeon Instinct MI60
(Vega 20 GL)[17][22][23]
4096:256:-
64 CU
1500
1800
384
460.8
- 29450 14725 7362.5 32 1024
AMD Instinct MI100
(MI100 XL)[24]
November 12, 2020 CDNA 1.0
7 nm
?
750 mm2
7680:480:-
120 CU
1000
1502
480
720
- 184600 23100 11500 2400 1228.8
  1. Boost values (if available) are stated below the base value in italic.
  2. Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of texture mapping units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  3. Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of render output units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  4. Precision performance is calculated from the base (or boost) core clock speed based on a FMA operation.
  5. Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units and Compute Units (CU)

See also

References

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