AMD introduces Radeon accelerators with 7nm GPU and PCI-e 4.0 support

AMD has announced two Radeon Instinct accelerators with 7nm GPUs. The Radeon Instinct Mi 60 and the Mi 50 are based on a Vega 20 GPU and are equipped with 32GB and 16GB hbm2. The data center cards have pci-e 4.0 support.

The Instinct Mi 60 is the top model, with a Vega 20 GPU that has 64 compute units, for a total of 4096 streaming processors. This card is combined with 32GB hbm2. In addition, AMD comes with the cheaper Instinct Mi 50, which has a Vega 20 GPU with 60 compute units and 3840 streaming processors, and is equipped with 16GB hbm2.

Both cards support PCI-E 4.0, but can also be used with PCI-E 3.0. The accelerators have a TDP of 300W and have no active cooling, but they are therefore only intended for use in servers that are equipped with significant airflow. The Instinct accelerator cards do not have video outputs. The cards feature two Infinity Fabric links, each offering 100GB of bandwidth and intended to link multiple cards together.

The Radeon Instinct cards are the first products with a 7nm GPU. AMD still uses the same Vega architecture, just like with the current RX Vega video cards and other versions of the Instinct accelerators. AMD is also working on GPUs with a new Navi architecture, which will also be made at 7nm.

AMD says in a press release that the Radeon Instinct Mi 60 card will be released in this quarter. The Mi 50 will follow in the first quarter of next year. Prices of the accelerators have not been disclosed.