AMD & Arena Join Hands To Optimize & Enhance Next-Generation Radeon GPU Performance & Efficiency Using AI

AMD & Arena AI have partnered up to enhance the performance of next-generation GPUs, offering better optimizations and efficiency.

Both AMD & NVIDIA are utilizing AI in some form or fashion to make their GPUs faster. NVIDIA has a range of development tools that not only help build better GPUs but also make production faster while AMD is making use of AI to enhance performance and power optimizations. AMD and Arena recently announced their collaboration on this AI-accelerated venture in which they will harness AI models to make their GPUs better. No specific GPUs have been announced but it looks like we may see the optimizations come in next-gen chips such as the upcoming RDNA 4 lineup.

Press Release: Arena, a developer of specialist AI foundation models, today announced a collaboration to scale AMD's deployment of Arena Atlas, the world's first AI test & optimization product for the latest process node semiconductor technology.

Throughout 2023, AMD and Arena piloted Atlas for AMD Radeon GPU testing and optimization. By quickly and autonomously identifying power and performance optimizations, AMD engineers can focus on other tasks, enabling increased productivity and accelerated product development. Atlas adds AI facilitation to the semiconductor configuration and testing process, enabling better and faster devices for consumers and professionals.

Atlas can make sense of multimodal data beyond standard text and video – such as power curves, thermal profiles, and streaming HD video – to build a fuller understanding of how a complex GPU behaves. This lets Atlas run testing and tuning jobs autonomously, reducing engineers' workloads and helping to accelerate some aspects of new product schedules. "What we've proven with Atlas for testing is just the beginning," said Pratap Ranade, Arena Co-Founder and CEO. "In the future, Atlas will also be able to help with debugging, root cause analysis, and eventually, the design of better chips and other complex electronics."

"In addition to empowering our customers with the latest capabilities to take advantage of the full power of AI in their businesses and industries, AMD is committed to leveraging advanced AI technologies internally to improve processes and ultimately deliver better solutions to our customers," said Andrej Zdravkovic, SVP, and Chief Software Officer at AMD."

Atlas helps streamline the manually-intensive and lengthy process of configuring and testing today's complex GPU technologies, giving our engineers a leg up in maximizing the optimizations for next-generation products."