Chinese Biren Technology introduced the Biren BR100 HPC graphics card during the Biren Explore Summit 2022 event. Biren aims to compete with large international companies with its general purpose graphics card architecture that offers impressive performance figures.
Biren Technology wants to compete with international companies
Biren BR100 stands out with its 77 billion transistor chip architecture. The graphics card, produced by TSMC using 2.5D CoWoS packaging and 7 nm production technology, is designed to compete with the products of international large companies. With 2.3 TFLOPs of bandwidth, the GPU has 64GB of HBM2E memory as well as 300MB of onboard cache. The graphics card also has a special cooler section.
The company claims that a chip with 77 billion transistors can emulate human brain nerve cells, and the chip itself can be used for DNN and artificial intelligence purposes. The company believes this will reduce China’s dependence on NVIDIA’s AI GPUs.
During the demo, Biren Technology disclosed various performance metrics of the graphics card. Offering 2048 TOP (INT8), 1024 TFLOP (BF16), 512 TFLOP (TF32+), 256 TFLOP (FP32) values, the graphics card has better performance figures than NVIDIA Ampere A100. NVIDIA’s Hopper H100 graphics card, on the other hand, manages to offer about 2 times more performance in the same performance measurements.
While the BR100 is built on the BiLiren architecture, it is the company’s flagship graphics card model. The company also introduced the PCIe-based BR104 graphics card. Positioned lower than the flagship model, the BR104 appears for customers with lower performance expectations.
Biren BR104 is offered as a standard PCIe card, while the BR100 is offered as an OAM. Details about the BR104, which offers a standard PCIe performance with 300W TDP, have not been announced yet. The Chinese company did not make a statement on the price of both graphics cards.
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