Brad McCredie (corporate vice president of datacenter GPU and accelerated processing at AMD) told HPCwire the company is exploring other emerging numerical formats that target AI and ML workloads, but doesn’t want to get too far out in front of the industry.ĪMD’s MI100 GPU presents a competitive alternative to Nvidia’s A100 GPU, rated at 9.7 teraflops of peak theoretical performance. However, the A100 is returning even higher performance than that on its FP64 Linpack runs.

(Yes, you heard right.) The A100 GPU is achieving ~12 double-precision Linpack teraflops (see Selene, for example), and Nvidia confirmed to me they use a different double-precision peak for their marketing material and for their Top500 rMax (9.7 versus 15.1 teraflops, respectively).Īs new numerical formats optimized for AI/ML gain traction, performance comparisons – already a challenging, if not dark, art – are becoming more confounding.

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