News Chinese Biren's New GPUs Have 77 Billion Transistors, 2 PFLOPS of AI Performance

[Admin]

Biren's first GPUs can challenge Nvidia's A100 GPU in select workloads, at least on paper.

Chinese Biren's New GPUs Have 77 Billion Transistors, 2 PFLOPS of AI Performance : Read more

 

[bit_user]

Well, here we are. I think Nvidia doesn't really need to worry quite yet. The new hardware, and its supporting software stack, are probably still very rough around the edges, and will continue to be so for some time. But Nvidia is finally on-notice.

Nvidia, AMD, and others have long been doing some design work of their chips in China (since the mid-2000's, I've heard), so it can hardly come as a surprise that China is finally becoming a formidable competitor.

 

[Dadata]

Has any of this been independently verified? I find it hard to believe that a chip with 3 billion less transistors is able to do 4x more fp32 tflops and consume less power than nvidias chip

 

[bit_user]

Has any of this been independently verified?

It's hard to tell if this is just a product announcement, or if it's actually now shipping. In any case, I doubt they're available outside of China.

I find it hard to believe that a chip with 3 billion less transistors is able to do 4x more fp32 tflops and consume less power than nvidias chip

Perhaps that number is really more comparable to Nvidia's TF32 metric, at least in so far as it represents more of a corner case than what generic GPU shaders would really be able to achieve.

Also, note that their big accelerator uses two chips, and they seem to presume linear scaling. On some workloads, that won't happen.

 

[Mpablo87]

Good Article! !