AMD MI450: New AI-GPU aims to lead and compete with NVIDIA's Rubin

Company AMD has revealed ambitious plans to bring to market a new generation of GPUs for AI — MI450, which is set to be a turning point in the company's strategy. According to AMD executive vice president Forrest Norrod, the MI450 will be the "no excuses generation" and is aimed at absolute leadership in productivity in all key tasks of artificial intelligence - from training to inference.

The MI450 will be a development of the MI300 series, in which AMD first focused on inference. In the intermediate version MI355 The manufacturer plans to expand its model training capabilities by improving both the hardware and software ecosystem. All efforts are focused on the 450 release of the MI2026, which should be for AMD what it became third generation EPYC processors — an absolute breakthrough in the server segment.

Norrod also said that the MI450 is designed to outperform not only the current generation of NVIDIA Blackwell, but also future architectures. Ruby, which AMD plans to enter the market at the same time. In addition, the company confirmed that new unified architecture UDNA in the future will combine gaming and AI-GPU AMD. This may also affect the development of gaming graphics cards, including future replacements Radeon RX 9070 XT, which will not be released until 2026.

AMD also outlined the goal of increasing its share of the graphics card market to 20%, which would be a significant increase from the current level of 6%. A new generation of GPUs, built with investments in AI in mind, could change the balance of power and provide real competition to NVIDIA's dominant solutions.