BR100: Biren presents the most powerful Chinese GPGPU, above the NVIDIA Ampere A100

The rise in power of processors of Chinese origin is no longer a pipe dream, the BR100 seems there to prove it.

On the occasion of its own event – ​​the Biren Explore Summit 2022 – the Chinese company Biren presented what is known in the jargon as a GPGPU with impressive capabilities.

77 billion transistors

GPGPU is here to general-purpose computing on graphics processing units. In other words, it is a question of carrying out generic calculations on a graphics processor, a chip originally not designed for this.

In recent years, GPUs have gained considerably in power and are now more robust than CPUs thanks in particular to their parallel processing capacity which, if used well, can significantly increase computing power.

It is in this direction that the Chinese Biren has rushed, which has just presented its BR100, a chip engraved in 7 nm and which integrates the trifle of 77 billion transistors within a die logically imposing.

More efficient than an Ampere A100

The BR100 marks a turning point for China. According to Biren’s figures, the GPGPU is capable of remarkable performances: 2,048 TOPs (INT8), 1,024 TFLOPs (BF16), 512 TFLOPs (TF32+) and 256 TFLOPs (FP32) which would make it a chip more powerful than NVIDIA’s Ampere A100.

NVIDIA would still keep a certain lead thanks to its Hopper H100 which should offer 2x to 2.5x the performance of the BR100, but Biren is far from being ridiculous, especially since it integrates a close number of transistors: 77 billion on the BR100 against 80 billion on the NVIDIA H100.

Biren does not rest only on the BR100 and, as if to use a nomenclature quite close to that of NVIDIA, the Chinese mentioned the BR104 which must offer 50% of the performance of the BR100. Unlike the latter, the design chipletthe BR104 is a monolithic GPGPU.

Thus, the BR104 is intended for classic integration within PCI Express cards and would have a TDP of 300 Watts. Two solutions capable of significantly reducing American dependence on China, although Biren has not yet announced a launch date or prices.

Source : WCCFTech