- AMD MI355X has 288 GB HBM3E memory and delivers 8TB/SEK bandwidth
- Instinct GPU -Sales surpassed $ 5 billion in 2024
- Despite rapid growth and innovation, AMD’s production challenges
AMD is set to produce the launch plan for its instinct MI355X GPU as it seems to bring the fight to Nvidia in the increasingly lucrative hardware market.
Although the product was originally set to a late 2025 debut, MI355X is now expected to arrive in mid-2025, NextPlatform reports.
It is a step that reveals the extent of AMD’s urgent nature to challenge the established market dominance; Nvidia’s Blackwell series has long been synonymous with the top-tier performance.
Violation of the competition?
We already know that the instinct MI355X GPU is built on AMD’s new CDNA 4 architecture and comes with 288 GB HBM3E memory and supports 8TB/sec on bandwidth.
These improvements along with support for FP6 and FP4 Low-Prepision Computing are designed to meet the demanding needs of AI treatment.
In comparison, Nvidia’s Blackwell B200 offers 192 GB HBM3E memory with similar bandwidth, placing the MI355X as a serious competitor in AI acceleration with high-performance AI.
AMD’s push in high performance GPUs is driven by the explosive growth of its data center business segment.
By 2024, this segment that includes EPYC CPUs, instinct GPUs, Pensando DPUs and Xilinx FPGA accelerators, for almost half of its $ 25.79 billion in revenue. The company’s instinct GPU sales alone surpassed $ 5 billion, reflecting a strong demand for AI and high-performance computer solutions.
Nevertheless, AMD faces production challenges due to limited access to high bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced packaging technologies such as COWOS, which have limited its ability to fully meet market demand.
Although Nvidia continues to lead the global AI-accelerator market with a commanding share that exceeds 90% and a valuation that places it among the world’s most valuable businesses, AMD’s decision to quickly track down the MI355X launch shows its determination to have a serious challenge and claim some market share for themselves.
In case you missed it, AMD revealed the first details of its next generation accelerator in June 2024, which suggested what was going to come. Shortly thereafter, the company released more information about the upcoming instinct MI355X GPU.
