Developing story · 2 episodes · 18 Sept to 2 Oct
AMD Nvidia AI Hardware Rivalry Escalates
The saga tracks the intensifying hardware rivalry between AMD and Nvidia as OpenAI deploys AMD-based systems for its Jalapeño ASICs. The latest development sees AMD claim its 96-core Venice CPU outperforms Nvidia Vera by 20% in SPEC CPU 2026 benchmarks.
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OpenAI deploys Jalapeño ASICs with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, not Nvidia Vera
OpenAI is deploying its new Jalapeño ASIC chips internally alongside AMD EPYC Turin host CPUs, each equipped with 1.5TB of memory. Richard Ho, OpenAI's VP and Head of Hardware, told Tom's Hardware…
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AMD says 96-core Venice CPU is about 20% faster than Nvidia Vera in SPEC CPU 2026
AMD claims its 96-core, high‑frequency Venice processor is around 20% faster than Nvidia's 88-core Vera in the SPEC CPU 2026 Integer Rate benchmark. AMD also reports a 78% speedup over its prior…
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