AMD Unveils Instinct MI200 ‘Aldebaran’ GPU, First 6nm MCM Product With 58 Billion Transistors, Over 14,000 Cores & 128 GB HBM2e Memory

AMD has officially announced its next-generation MI200 HPC GPU codenamed Aldebaran that uses a 6nm CDNA 2 architecture to deliver insane compute performance.

AMD Unveils Instinct MI200, Powering The Next-Gen Compute Powerhouse With First 6nm MCM GPU Technology & Over 95 TFLOPs FP32 Performance

AMD is officially the first to MCM technology and they are doing so with a grand product which is their Instinct MI200 codenamed Aldebaran. The AMD Aldebaran GPU will come in various forms & sizes but it’s all based on the brand new CDNA 2 architecture which is the most refined variation of Vega. Some of the main features before we go into detail are listed below:

• AMD CDNA 2 architecture – 2nd Gen Matrix Cores accelerating FP64 and FP32 matrix operations, delivering up to 4X the peak theoretical FP64 performance vs. AMD previous-gen GPUs.
• Leadership Packaging Technology – Industry-first multi-die GPU design with 2.5D Elevated Fanout Bridge (EFB) technology delivers 1.8X more cores and 2.7X higher memory bandwidth vs. AMD previous-gen GPUs, offering the industry’s best aggregate peak theoretical memory bandwidth at 3.2 terabytes per second.
• 3rd Gen AMD Infinity Fabric technology – Up to 8 Infinity Fabric links connect the AMD Instinct MI200 with 3rd Gen EPYC CPUs and other GPUs in the node to enable unified CPU/GPU memory coherency and maximize system throughput, allowing for an easier on-ramp for CPU codes to tap the power of accelerators.

AMD Instinct MI200 GPU Die Shot:

Inside the AMD Instinct MI200 is an Aldebaran GPU featuring two dies, a secondary and a primary. It has two dies with each consisting of 8 shader engines for a total of 16 SE’s. Each Shader Engine packs 16 CUs with full-rate FP64, packed FP32 & a 2nd Generation Matrix Engine for FP16 & BF16 operations.

Each die, as such, is composed of 128 compute units or 8192 stream processors. This rounds up to a total of 220 compute units or 14,080 stream processors for the entire chip. The Aldebaran GPU is also powered by a new XGMI interconnect. Each chiplet features a VCN 2.6 engine and the main IO controller.

Built on AMD CDNA 2 architecture, AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators deliver leading application performance for a broad set of HPC workloads. The AMD Instinct MI250X accelerator provides up to 4.9X better performance than competitive accelerators for double precision (FP64) HPC applications and surpasses 380 teraflops of peak theoretical half-precision (FP16) for AI workloads to enable disruptive approaches in further accelerating data-driven research.

In terms of performance, AMD is touting various record wins in the HPC segment over NVIDIA’s A100 solution with up to 3x performance improvements in AMG.

As for DRAM, AMD has gone with an 8-channel interface consisting of 1024-bit interfaces for an 8192-bit wide bus interface. Each interface can support 2GB HBM2e DRAM modules. This should give us up to 16 GB of HBM2e memory capacity per stack and since there are eight stacks in total, the total amount of capacity would be a whopping 128 GB. That’s 48 GB more than the A100 which houses 80 GB HBM2e memory. The memory will clock in at an insane speed of 3.2 Gbps for a full-on bandwidth of 3.2 TB/s. This is a whole 1.2 TB/s more bandwidth than the A100 80 GB which has 2 TB/s.

The AMD Instinct MI200 will be powering three top-tier supercomputers which include the United States’ exascale Frontier system; the European Union’s pre-exascale LUMI system; and Australia’s petascale Setonix system. The competition includes the A100 80 GB which offers 19.5 TFLOPs of FP64, 156 TFLOPs of FP32 and 312 TFLOPs of FP16 compute power. But we are likely to hear about NVIDIA’s own Hopper MCM GPU next year so there’s going to be a heated competition between the two GPU juggernauts in 2022.

AMD Radeon Instinct Accelerators 2020

Accelerator Name	AMD Instinct MI300	AMD Instinct MI250X	AMD Instinct MI250	AMD Instinct MI210	AMD Instinct MI100	AMD Radeon Instinct MI60	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50	AMD Radeon Instinct MI25	AMD Radeon Instinct MI8	AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
GPU Architecture	TBA (CDNA 3)	Aldebaran (CDNA 2)	Aldebaran (CDNA 2)	Aldebaran (CDNA 2)	Arcturus (CDNA 1)	Vega 20	Vega 20	Vega 10	Fiji XT	Polaris 10
GPU Process Node	Advanced Process Node	6nm	6nm	6nm	7nm FinFET	7nm FinFET	7nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	28nm	14nm FinFET
GPU Dies	4 (MCM)?	2 (MCM)	2 (MCM)	2 (MCM)	1 (Monolithic)	1 (Monolithic)	1 (Monolithic)	1 (Monolithic)	1 (Monolithic)	1 (Monolithic)
GPU Cores	28,160?	14,080	13,312	TBA	7680	4096	3840	4096	4096	2304
GPU Clock Speed	TBA	1700 MHz	1700 MHz	TBA	~1500 MHz	1800 MHz	1725 MHz	1500 MHz	1000 MHz	1237 MHz
FP16 Compute	TBA	383 TOPs	362 TOPs	TBA	185 TFLOPs	29.5 TFLOPs	26.5 TFLOPs	24.6 TFLOPs	8.2 TFLOPs	5.7 TFLOPs
FP32 Compute	TBA	95.7 TFLOPs	90.5 TFLOPs	TBA	23.1 TFLOPs	14.7 TFLOPs	13.3 TFLOPs	12.3 TFLOPs	8.2 TFLOPs	5.7 TFLOPs
FP64 Compute	TBA	47.9 TFLOPs	45.3 TFLOPs	TBA	11.5 TFLOPs	7.4 TFLOPs	6.6 TFLOPs	768 GFLOPs	512 GFLOPs	384 GFLOPs
VRAM	TBA	128 GB HBM2e	128 GB HBM2e	TBA	32 GB HBM2	32 GB HBM2	16 GB HBM2	16 GB HBM2	4 GB HBM1	16 GB GDDR5
Memory Clock	TBA	3.2 Gbps	3.2 Gbps	TBA	1200 MHz	1000 MHz	1000 MHz	945 MHz	500 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory Bus	TBA	8192-bit	8192-bit	8192-bit	4096-bit bus	4096-bit bus	4096-bit bus	2048-bit bus	4096-bit bus	256-bit bus
Memory Bandwidth	TBA	3.2 TB/s	3.2 TB/s	TBA	1.23 TB/s	1 TB/s	1 TB/s	484 GB/s	512 GB/s	224 GB/s
Form Factor	TBA	OAM	OAM	Dual Slot Card	Dual Slot, Full Length	Dual Slot, Full Length	Dual Slot, Full Length	Dual Slot, Full Length	Dual Slot, Half Length	Single Slot, Full Length
Cooling	TBA	Passive Cooling	Passive Cooling	Passive Cooling	Passive Cooling	Passive Cooling	Passive Cooling	Passive Cooling	Passive Cooling	Passive Cooling
TDP	TBA	560W	500W?	TBA	300W	300W	300W	300W	175W	150W

The Aldebaran MI200 GPU will come in three configurations, the OAM only MI250 and MI250X & the dual-slot PCIe MI210. AMD has only shared full specifications and performance figures for its MI250 class HPC GPUs. The MI250X features the full 14,080 configurations and delivers 47.9, 95.7, 383 TFLOPs of FP64/FP32/FP16 while the MI250 features 13,312 cores with 45.3,90.5,362.1 TFLOPs of FP64/FP32/FP16 performance. The memory configuration remains the same between the two GPU configurations.

AMD Instinct MI200 GPU Package:

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