As the computational demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning workloads accelerate, traditional parallel attached DRAM memory has presented a major roadblock for next-generation CPUs, which require an increased number of memory channels to deliver more
memory bandwidth. Microchip Technology Inc.
"Equipped with Radeon Pro Vega II GPUs, the new Mac Pro delivers the computational horsepower and
memory bandwidth to power ultra-high screen resolutions and help dramatically accelerate compute and content creation workloads, enabling creative professionals to focus on unleashing their creativity and delivering amazing results."
TechRadar had said, "For the RTX 2080, that would mean a jump in
memory bandwidth from 448GB/s to 512GB/s, an almost 15% increase (and faster
memory bandwidth means a faster graphics card in general)."
Intel has released 2nd-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, which provide a powerful platform that delivers evolutionary enhancements in performance, AI inference, network functions, groundbreaking persistent
memory bandwidth and security.
The performance of an application, measured in floating-point operations per second (flops), is often limited by
memory bandwidth. Achieving performance close to the theoretical maximum usually requires threading, vectorisation, and efficient use of
memory bandwidth.
Expanding emerging memory technology for high
memory bandwidth interfaces is key to Rambus' strategic core business.
This chipset integrates 8-channel DDR4, and
memory bandwidth exceeds incumbent offerings by 46%.
With hardware technology that draws out the high
memory bandwidth of high performance stacked memory, the system can efficiently utilize the CPU's high functional computational processing units, enabling delivery of high application execution performance.
In this case, you don't technically need to go with ARM to maximize per-socket
memory bandwidth -- AMD also uses up to eight channels in its Epyc line of CPUs -- but the move to deploy a test ARM system is also important for validating that ARM hardware and servers are up to the challenge of serving in this environment.
By integrating the FPGA and the HBM2, Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGAs offer up to 10 times the
memory bandwidth when compared with standalone DDR memory solutions1.
The HP Z8 Tower has 67% more
memory bandwidth, 27% greater processor core count capacity, 40%greater PCIe I/O bandwidth and 29% greater power supply capability -- as compared to the Z840 -- for customers running demanding workloads.