Stefan Mileschin

AMD's new 29b transistor 6nm CDNA 2 GPU

In addition to the CPU announcements, a big part of AMD's Accelerated Data Center keynote was focused on the new AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators. Based on the new CDNA 2 GPU architecture, this dual-GPU accelerator claims the world's first exascale-class GPU.

The new AMD CDNA 2 architecture is obviously a direct evolution of the original CDNA architecture, which draws its roots from the original GCN, the same one that has given us the RDNA architecture for consumer GPUs.

The new CDNA 2 die is built on TSCM's N6 manufacturing process (6nm) and packs a total of 29b transistors, at least from what we can gather from AMD's Instinct MI200 announcement. Unfortunately, there are no official details about the die size, but it appears that the GPU packs 112 Compute Units (CUs), packed in 4 Compute Engines, and paired up with eight Infinity Fabric Links and four HBM2E memory controllers.

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