China GPUs are ready for HPCs

[del42sa]

China’s Biren BR100 is 7nm HPC GPU with 77B transistors and 64GB HBM2e memory

Biren’s GPUs are faster than NVIDIA Ampere architecture (A100), but not as fast as Hopper, which offers 2 to 2.5x more performance. Not bad at the first attempt ....

 

[pharma]

I wonder whether the government will "encourage" local and foreign companies located in China to use home-grown solutions?

Also interesting to see they support the new TF32 format

Edit: Nothing new with regard to poaching:

Chinese GPU Developer Poaches New VP From Nvidia

Biren gets high-profile GPU specialist from Nvidia

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Granath]

China’s Biren BR100 is 7nm HPC GPU with 77B transistors and 64GB HBM2e memory

Biren’s GPUs are faster than NVIDIA Ampere architecture (A100), but not as fast as Hopper, which offers 2 to 2.5x more performance. Not bad at the first attempt ....

not bad ??!!!!

well, what's about SW stack ?

 

[orangpelupa]

If ethereum price goes up again, that gpu will be ij huge demand, due to hbm. Good news for gamers looking to get Nvidia and amd thebt.

 

[pcchen]

If ethereum price goes up again, that gpu will be ij huge demand, due to hbm. Good news for gamers looking to get Nvidia and amd thebt.

Ethereum mining is dead. Even if miners go to the supposed "PoW-fork" of ETH, or ETC, they are still going to face the problem of huge excess hashing power.
As for HPC, well let's just wait and see, though I doubt we'll see anything concrete, such as benchmark results from an independent group, considering that China is not even participating Top500 now.

 

[DavidGraham]

Theoretical numbers mean squat, AMD claimed the same with the MI250X (2 GCDs), (with theoretical numbers for a single GCD far exceeding the A100), only to be proven wrong on most actual applications, (single A100 significantly faster than a single GCD).

 

[Kaotik]

There's no info on availability or pricing because there is none. TSMC isn't supplying China currently, the chips they have were produced before sanctions hit it.

 

[pharma]

Biren BR100 GPU for Datacenter Compute and AI Workloads

The Biren BR100 is a new server GPU shown at Hot Chips 34. We discuss the new GPU and make our guess as who makes the Hearten server

www.servethehome.com

 

[DavidGraham]

Two compute dies, likely treated as separate GPUs as well, so will end up the same way as the MI250X.

 

[Qesa]

Two compute dies, likely treated as separate GPUs as well, so will end up the same way as the MI250X.

They said in their hot chips presentation that it presents as one. Bisection bandwidth was about 900 GB/s from memory so still very much NUMA however