Subj : 'No asterisk generation' : AMD promises its MI450 AI GPU will be To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Thu Sep 11 2025 19:45:08 'No asterisk generation' : AMD promises its MI450 AI GPU will be faster than ANYTHING Nvidia has, yes, that includes even Rubin Ultra Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:33:00 +0000 Description: AMD says its MI450 GPUs will outperform Nvidia Rubin Ultra as it positions the launch as a Milan-style turning point in AI accelerator markets next year. FULL STORY ======================================================================AMD positions MI450 as its no asterisk generation aimed at AI leadership Company compares future GPU launch to 2021 Milan CPUs breaking Intels dominance Nvidia remains overwhelmingly ahead with Rubin set to challenge MI450 in 2026 AMD has made a startlingly confident claim regarding its upcoming Instinct MI450 GPUs. Speaking at a recent investor conference , data center chief Forrest Norrod declared the firms new chips will outperform any rival hardware, including Nvidias Rubin Ultra. He described the product as the companys no asterisk generation, aimed at delivering leadership in both AI training and inference. Milan moment Norrod compared the launch to AMDs 2021 Milan moment, when its EPYC server CPUs helped the company break Intels dominance in the server market. MI450 is perhaps akin to our Milan moment for people that are familiar with our EPYC roadmap, he said. It will be, we believe, and we are planning for it to be the best training, inference, distributed inference, reinforcement learning solution available on the market. The MI450 will follow the current MI355, which is intended to strengthen training capabilities after earlier models were primarily optimized for inference. AMD says that the new generation has been designed with both silicon and software improvements in mind, alongside full system-level support. Norrod stressed that the hardware and software roadmap had been carefully staged to deliver competitiveness at every step. At present, Nvidia utterly dominates the AI accelerator market, with estimates placing its share between 70 and 95 percent. AMDs most advanced GPU today, the MI355X, still lags behind Nvidias Blackwell Ultra, although it shows clear progress over its predecessor. The MI450 is expected to launch in 2026, arriving as Nvidia readies Rubin, which is forecast to deliver up to triple the performance of Blackwell Ultra. That will set up a direct test of AMDs claims. Although the chip giant is describing the future launch as a turning point, history suggests customer adoption will depend not just on raw speed but also on software ecosystem maturity and data center integration. This is something AMD is preparing for, as it has already said that the MI450 will ship with rack-level solutions designed for compatibility with existing infrastructure. Acknowledging Nvidia's current dominance, Norrod said, "Nvidia is a fantastic company. Theyve done a fantastic job, and they were well ahead. We had to catch up." He added, "We decided, with this multigenerational roadmap, to put the objective in place of, okay, when we get to 450, were going to be there the same time as when Vera Rubin was intended to be there, and were going to be there with that part thats fully performant, the software stack thats fully there, at least for the 80% of the market thats constituted by the top 20% or so customers. Weve focused on getting there in the 450 so that for training, theres no excuses, and theres no impediment, theres no hesitation of, hey, if Im training, Ill be behind in this generation if I go with AMD. Thats been the learning for us, and thats been the realization." You might also like AMD gets ready for Nvidia Vera Rubin with 432GB MI400 GPU monster Nvidia unveils next-generation Rubin AI chips, the new era of AI Megawatt-class AI server racks may well become the norm before 2030 ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/no-asterisk-generation-amd-promises-its-mi450-ai -gpu-will-be-faster-than-anything-nvidia-has-yes-that-includes-even-rubin-ultr a --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .