23-07-2026 19:26 via theregister.com

AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's

Could Nvidia's days of datacenter dominance be threatened? With the launch of Helios, AMD’s first true rack-scale AI platform, the House of Zen is done playing catch up. The company claims the rack system is powered by the fastest AI accelerators on the market. And, at least on paper, the 72-GPU system is not only bigger and faster by nearly every metric than Nvidia’s existing Blackwell-based rack systems but Vera Rubin as well, and that includes the rack. Measuring in at 1.2 meters
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