- AMD positions MI450 as its no asterisk generation aimed at AI management
- The company compares future GPU launch with 2021 Milan Cpus Breaking Intel’s Dominance
- Nvidia remains overwhelming in the future with ruby to challenge the MI450 in 2026
AMD has made a surprisingly confident assertion of the upcoming instinct MI450 GPUs.
When he spoke at a recent investor conference, Data Center Manager Forrest Norrod declared that the company’s new chips surpass any rival hardware, including Nvidia’s Rubin Ultra.
He described the product as the company’s “no star generation” aimed at providing leadership in both AI education and inference.
Milan at least
Norrod compared the launch with AMD 2021 “Milan Moment” as its EPYC server CPUs helped the company break Intel’s dominance in the server market.
“The MI450 may be similar to our Milan moment for people who are familiar with our EPYC timetable,” he said. “It will be, we think, and we plan that it is the best workout, inference, distributed inference, reinforcement solution available in the market.”
The MI450 will follow the current MI355, which is intended to strengthen the training features after previous models were primarily optimized for inference.
AMD says the new generation is designed with both silicon and software improvements in mind together with full support at the system level.
Norrod emphasized that hardware and software timetable were carefully staged to deliver competitiveness at each step.
At present, Nvidia completely dominates AI accelerator market with estimates that place its share between 70 and 95 percent.
AMD’s most advanced GPU today, MI355X, is still hanging behind Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra, though it shows clear progress on its predecessor.
The MI450 is expected to be launched in 2026 and arrive like Nvidia Readies Rubin, which is expected to deliver up to triple the performance of Blackwell Ultra. It will create a direct test of AMD’s claims.
Although the chip giant describes the future launch as a turning point, the story suggests that customer uptake depends not only on raw speed but also on the maturity of the software ecosystem and the integration of data center.
This is something that AMD is preparing for, as it has already said, that the MI450 is sent with rack-level solutions designed for compatibility with existing infrastructure.
Recognizing Nvidia’s current dominance said Norrod, “Nvidia is a fantastic company. They have done a fantastic job and they were far ahead. We had to catch up.”
He added, “We decided with this multigenerational timetable to set the goal instead of, okay when we get to 450, we will be there at the same time as when Vera Rubin was intended to be there, and we will be there with the part that is fully executed, the software stack that is fully there, at least for the 80% of the market that is composed of the top 20% or customers. There are 450, so 450 was 450, so it saw that it is, so they have been in the top 20% or the customers. It is that it is that it is that the top of the 20% or customers or customers have focused on the 450, so in 450 for training there are no excuses and there is no obstacle, there is no hesitation, hello, if I train, I will be behind this generation if I go with AMD.
