Radeon Instinct
| Design firm | Advanced Micro Devices |
|---|---|
| Type | Servers |
Radeon Instinct is AMD's brand of deep learning oriented GPUs. 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.
The Radeon Instinct product line directly competes with Nvidia's Tesla lines of deep learning and GPGPU cards.
The three initial Radeon Instinct products were announced in December 2016, with each based on a different architecture.
The MI6 is a passively cooled, Polaris 10 based card with 16 GB of GDDR5 memory and with a <150 W TDP. At 5.8 TFLOPS (FP16 and FP32), the MI6 is expected to be used primarily for inference, rather than neural network training.
The MI8 is a Fiji based card, analogous to the R9 Nano, and expected to have a <170W TDP. The MI8 has 4 GB of High Bandwidth Memory. At 8.2 TFLOPS (FP16 and FP32), the MI8 is marked toward inference.
The MI25 card uses an undisclosed GPU (as of December 2016). However, the GPU is expected to be the widely rumored AMD Vega GPU, utilizing HBM2 memory. The MI25 performance is expected to be 12.5 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 25 TFLOPS when using FP16 numbers. The MI25 is rated at <300W TDP with passive cooling.
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