AMD's Fortunes Are Improving

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https://www.extremetech.com/computing/31...e-a100-gpu

Nvidia isn’t the only company with a new feather in its hat. Microsoft also notes that it built its new platform on AMD Epyc (Rome), with PCIe 4.0 support and third-generation NVLink. According to Microsoft, these advances should deliver an immediate 2x – 3x improvement in AI performance with no engineering work or model tuning. Customers who choose to leverage new features of Ampere like sparsity acceleration and Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) can improve performance by as much as 20x. According to Nvidia’s Ampere whitepaper, MIG is a feature that improves GPU utilization in a VM environment and can allow for up to 7x more GPU instances for no additional cost.