June 9, 2023 – In the highly competitive landscape of the graphics card market, NVIDIA continues to dominate with its unrivaled presence, leaving AMD’s market share squeezed. However, amidst this fierce competition, AMD is gearing up to unveil a graphics card at their upcoming data center product launch event next week, poised to give NVIDIA a run for its money.
AMD is set to host a special unveiling event on June 13 (early morning on June 14 in China), with a focus on products tailored for data centers. The event is expected to showcase new additions to their EPYC lineup, including the highly anticipated 128-core Bergamo and the Genoa-X processor with enhanced cache capabilities.
On the graphics card front, AMD will shed light on the release date of the Instinct MI300, which was introduced last year. It is projected to hit the market in the second half of the year, with a potential release as early as autumn. This particular product is designed to compete directly against NVIDIA’s high-performance computing card, the H100.
Currently, NVIDIA enjoys a dominant position in high-performance computing and AI domains, with no significant competitors in sight. In fact, their popular AI cards such as the A100 and H100 are in high demand, resulting in extended delivery times of up to six months. Consequently, the prices have skyrocketed by as much as 40%, with the H100, which used to cost 250,000 yuan, now reaching an astronomical figure. Companies are willing to invest exorbitant amounts of money to secure these cards, given the intense competition within the rapidly evolving AI field.
The MI300 graphics card from AMD aims to be their formidable weapon against NVIDIA’s stronghold. Boasting a multi-chip, multi-IP integrated packaging design, it utilizes the cutting-edge 5nm manufacturing process, with a mind-boggling transistor count of 14.6 billion.
The MI300 integrates GPU units based on the CDNA3 architecture (specific core count undisclosed), 24 CPU cores based on the Zen4 architecture, a generous amount of Infinity Cache, and a whopping 8192-bit bus width with 128GB capacity of high-bandwidth HBM3 memory. The card also features support for the fourth-generation Infinity Fabric bus, CXL 3.0 bus, unified memory architecture, and new mathematical computation formats, promising an astonishing 8-fold improvement in AI performance compared to its predecessor, capable of meeting the demands of exascale computing.
With AMD’s impending product launch event, the dynamics of the graphics card market are poised for an exciting shift. It remains to be seen how this highly anticipated MI300 graphics card will fare against NVIDIA’s dominance, potentially reshaping the landscape and intensifying the competition between the two giants.
