AMD Prices Helios at Up to $5.5 Million, Wins Microsoft Azure AI Deal
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Updated · Wccftech · Jul 21
AMD Prices Helios at Up to $5.5 Million, Wins Microsoft Azure AI Deal
3 articles · Updated · Wccftech · Jul 21
Summary
AMD is reportedly setting its Helios AI rack at $5 million to $5.5 million, about 40% above Nvidia Rubin’s expected $3.5 million to $4 million price.
Microsoft has approved Helios for Azure AI, giving AMD its first confirmed deployment despite the premium pricing and signaling confidence in the system’s rack-level performance.
Helios packages MI455X GPUs, sixth-generation EPYC Venice CPUs, Pensando NICs and DPUs, Infinity Fabric and ROCm as AMD’s first full-stack rackscale AI platform.
AMD says the MI455X delivers 40 PFLOPs of FP4 and 20 PFLOPs of FP8, versus Rubin’s 50 PFLOPs FP4 and 17.5 PFLOPs FP8, with 432 GB of HBM4 against 288 GB on Rubin.
The reported Microsoft win comes as AMD also lines up OpenAI, Meta, Oracle, HPE, TCS, Celestica, Nutanix and the U.S. DOE around its broader AI infrastructure push.