https://wccftech.com/microsoft-azure-upgraded-amd-instinct-mi200-gpu-clusters-for-large-scale-ai-training/

Yesterday, Microsoft Azure disclosed the plan to use AMD Instinct MI200 Instinct GPUs to expand AI machine learning in the widely used cloud on a larger scale. AMD revealed the MI200 GPU series at the company's exclusive Accelerated Datacenter event at the end of 2021. AMD MI200 accelerators utilize the CDNA 2 architecture, offering 58 billion transistors with high-bandwidth memory of 128 GB packed into a dual-die layout.

Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager of data center and embedded solutions at AMD, assures that the next-gen chips are close to five times more efficient than NVIDIA's top-level A100 GPU. This calculation regards FP64 measures that the company felt were "highly precise." In FP16 workloads, the gap was primarily narrowed in standard workloads, even though AMD stated the chips were up to 20 percent more instantaneous than the current NVIDIA A100, where the company remains the data center GPU leader.