"Two 2030 AMD racks are expected to deliver same compute as 570 racks in 2024"

"Two 2030 AMD racks are expected to deliver same compute as 570 racks in 2024"(newsroom.amd.com)

12 points by lossolo 2 days ago | 3 comments

rpdillon 2 days ago |

The headliner is the 4x efficiency increase from 2024-2026.

The HN headline comes from a section discussing 2030 projections:

> What Efficiency Gains are Expected? Based on a representative AI training workload, AMD projected rack-scale energy-efficiency gains are expected to produce one of two related benefits by 2030:

> Same compute, fewer resources: Approximately two 2030 AMD racks are expected to deliver the same compute as 570 racks in 2024, enabling a reduction in use-phase electricity by 20x and carbon intensity by 28x.

> More compute, same energy: Alternatively, efficiency gains are expected to enable 20x more compute, measured in floating point operations per second (FLOPs) per watt, using the same amount of energy.

ericpauley 2 days ago | |

Funny that they share a carbon intensity number that seems totally divorced from the technology itself. Is AMD taking credit for the electric grid cleaning up?

anonymous_user9 2 days ago | | |

Maybe the difference in hardware (producing 2 racks vs. 500)