News Samsung Connects 96 PIM-Modified AMD MI100 GPUs

[Admin]

Samsung sees amazing performance enhancements from modifying 96 AMD MI100 GPUs with processing in memory (PIM) modules.

Samsung Connects 96 PIM-Modified AMD MI100 GPUs : Read more

 

[rluker5]

Nice. I want some.

 

[Co BIY]

But what Tom's wants to know :

Will it run Crisis ? ect ...

Can it be GAMED?

 

[bit_user]

But what Tom's wants to know :

Will it run Crisis ? ect ...

Can it be GAMED?

No, the MI100 has no texture engines, ROPs, or display controllers, nor does it support graphics APIs like OpenGL or Direct3D.

The MI100 was AMD's first CDNA product. None of the CDNA products do graphics. They do have video decode acceleration, but that's just for the benefit analyzing video streams with AI.

 

[bit_user]

This is just a taste. Wait until someone actually designs an entire accelerator around this stuff!

The reason I say that is the PIM modules duplicate some functionality that's in the core compute die. So, if you removed that redundancy, it would free up some area in the core compute die for more compute that the PIM modules don't accelerate. The end result would be even greater speed up!