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1. Calculations conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of Sep 18, 2020 for the AMD Instinct™ MI100 (32GB HBM2 PCIe® card) accelerator at 1,502 MHz peak boost engine clock resulted in 11.54 TFLOPS peak double precision (FP64), 46.1 TFLOPS peak single precision matrix (FP32), 23.1 TFLOPS peak single precision (FP32), 184.6 TFLOPS peak half precision (FP16) peak theoretical, floating-point performance. Published results on the NVidia Ampere A100 (40GB) GPU accelerator resulted in 9.7 TFLOPS peak double precision (FP64). 19.5 TFLOPS peak single precision (FP32), 78 TFLOPS peak half precision (FP16) theoretical, floating-point performance. Server manufacturers may vary configuration offerings yielding different results. MI100-03
2. Calculations performed by AMD Performance Labs as of Sep 3, 2020 on the AMD Instinct™ MI100 (32GB HBM2 PCIe® card) accelerator at 1,502 MHz peak engine clock resulted in 46.1 TFLOPS peak theoretical single precision (FP32 Matrix) Math floating-point performance. The Nvidia Ampere A100 (40GB) GPU accelerator published results are 19.5 TFLOPS peak single precision (FP32) floating-point performance. Nvidia results found at: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Center/nvidia-ampere-architecture-whitepaper.pdf. Server manufacturers may vary configuration offerings yielding different results. MI100-01
3. Calculations performed by AMD Performance Labs as of Sep 18, 2020 for the AMD Instinct™ MI100 accelerator at 1,502 MHz peak boost engine clock resulted in 184.57 TFLOPS peak theoretical half precision (FP16) and 46.14 TFLOPS peak theoretical single precision (FP32 Matrix) floating-point performance. The results calculated for Radeon Instinct™ MI50 GPU at 1,725 MHz peak engine clock resulted in 26.5 TFLOPS peak theoretical half precision (FP16) and 13.25 TFLOPS peak theoretical single precision (FP32 Matrix) floating-point performance. Server manufacturers may vary configuration offerings yielding different results. MI100-04
4. Calculations as of SEP 18th, 2020. AMD Instinct™ MI100 built on AMD CDNA technology accelerators supporting PCIe® Gen4 providing up to 64 GB/s peak theoretical transport data bandwidth from CPU to GPU per card. AMD Instinct™ MI100 accelerators include three Infinity Fabric™ links providing up to 276 GB/s peak theoretical GPU to GPU or Peer-to-Peer (P2P) transport rate bandwidth performance per GPU card. Combined with PCIe Gen4 support providing an aggregate GPU card I/O peak bandwidth of up to 340 GB/s. MI100s have three links: 92 GB/s * 3 links per GPU = 276 GB/s. Four GPU hives provide up to 552 GB/s peak theoretical P2P performance. Dual 4 GPU hives in a server provide up to 1.1 TB/s total peak theoretical direct P2P performance per server. AMD Infinity Fabric link technology not enabled: Four GPU hives provide up to 256 GB/s peak theoretical P2P performance with PCIe® 4.0. Server manufacturers may vary configuration offerings yielding different results. MI100-07
5. Calculations by AMD Performance Labs as of Oct 5th, 2020 for the AMD Instinct™ MI100 accelerator designed with AMD CDNA 7nm FinFET process technology at 1,200 MHz peak memory clock resulted in 1.2288 TFLOPS peak theoretical memory bandwidth performance. The results calculated for Radeon Instinct™ MI50 GPU designed with “Vega” 7nm FinFET process technology with 1,000 MHz peak memory clock resulted in 1.024 TFLOPS peak theoretical memory bandwidth performance. CDNA-04
6. Works with PCIe® Gen 4.0 and Gen 3.0 compliant motherboards. Performance may vary from motherboard to motherboard. Refer to system or motherboard provider for individual product performance and features.
7. Testing Conducted by AMD performance labs as of October 30th, 2020, on three platforms and software versions typical for the launch dates of the Radeon Instinct MI25 (2018), MI50 (2019) and AMD Instinct MI100 GPU (2020) running the benchmark application Quicksilver. MI100 platform (2020): Gigabyte G482-Z51-00 system comprised of Dual Socket AMD EPYC™ 7702 64-Core Processor, AMD Instinct™ MI100 GPU, ROCm™ 3.10 driver, 512GB DDR4, RHEL 8.2.  MI50 platform (2019): Supermicro® SYS-4029GP-TRT2 system comprised of Dual Socket Intel Xeon® Gold® 6132, Radeon Instinct™ MI50 GPU, ROCm 2.10 driver, 256 GB DDR4, SLES15SP1. MI25 platform (2018): Supermicro SYS-4028GR-TR2 system comprised of Dual Socket Intel Xeon CPU E5-2690, Radeon Instinct™ MI25 GPU, ROCm 2.0.89 driver, 246GB DDR4 system memory, Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS. MI100-14
8. Testing Conducted by AMD performance labs as of October 30th, 2020, on three platforms and software versions typical for the launch dates of the Radeon Instinct MI25 (2018), MI50 (2019) and AMD Instinct MI100 GPU (2020) running the benchmark application TensorFlow ResNet 50 FP 16 batch size 128. MI100 platform (2020): Gigabyte G482-Z51-00 system comprised of Dual Socket AMD EPYC™ 7702 64-Core Processor, AMD Instinct™ MI100 GPU, ROCm™ 3.10 driver, 512GB DDR4, RHEL 8.2. MI50 platform (2019): Supermicro® SYS-4029GP-TRT2 system comprised of Dual Socket Intel Xeon® Gold® 6254, Radeon Instinct™ MI50 GPU, ROCm 3.0.6 driver, 338 GB DDR4, Ubuntu® 16.04.6 LTS. MI25 platform (2018): a Supermicro SYS-4028GR-TR2 system comprised of Dual Socket Intel Xeon CPU E5-2690, Radeon Instinct™ MI25 GPU, ROCm 2.0.89 driver, 246GB DDR4 system memory, Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS. MI100-15