- AMD positions MI450 as its non -asterisk generation aimed at the leadership of AI
- The company compares the future launch of GPU with 2021 Milan CPU breaking the Intel domain
- Nvidia continues overwhelmingly ahead with Rubin ready to challenge the MI450 in 2026
AMD has made a surprisingly safe claim with respect to its upcoming GPU Instinct MI450.
Speaking at a recent investor conference, the head of the Forrest Norrod Data Center declared that the firm’s new chips will exceed any rival hardware, including Rubin Ultra de Nvidia.
He described the product as the “non -asterisk generation” of the company, with the aim of providing leadership both in training and inference.
Milan Moment
Norrod compared the launch with the “Milan Moment” of 2021 of AMD, when his CPU Epyc Server helped the company break Intel’s dominance in the server market.
“Mi450 is perhaps similar to our Milan moment for people who are familiar with our EPYC road map,” he said. “We believe, believe, and we are planning to be the best training, inference, distributed inference and reinforcement learning in the market.”
The MI450 will follow the current MI355, which is intended to strengthen training capabilities after previous models were mainly optimized for inference.
AMD says that the new generation has been designed with silicon improvements and software in mind, along with full system support.
Norrod emphasized that the hardware and software road map had been carefully staged to offer competitiveness at each step.
At present, Nvidia completely dominates the AI accelerator market, with estimates that place their participation between 70 and 95 percent.
The most advanced AMD GPU today, the MI355X, is still behind Blackwell Ultra de Nvidia, although it shows a clear progress on its predecessor.
The MI450 is expected to be launched in 2026, reaching Nvidia prepare Rubin, which is predicted to triple the performance of Blackwell Ultra. That will establish a direct evidence of AMD statements.
Although the chips giant is describing the future launch as a turning point, the story suggests that the adoption of the client will depend not only on gross speed but also on the maturity of the software ecosystem and integration of the data center.
This is something that AMD is preparing, since it has already said that the MI450 will be sent with rack level solutions designed for compatibility with existing infrastructure.
Recognizing the current domain of Nvidia, Norrod said: “Nvidia is a fantastic company. They have done a fantastic job and they were very forward. We had to catch up.”
He added: “We decided, with this multigenerational roadmap, to put the goal instead of, well, when we reach 450, we will be there at the same time that when Vera Rubin intended to be there, and we will be there with that part that is complete And there is no impediment, there is no doubt, hey, if I am training, I will be late in this generation if I go with AMD.
