Graphcore IPU
IPU accelerators now inside SoftBank.
Full Graphcore IPU record →Head to head
Graphcore IPU vs AMD Instinct MI355X
Graphcore IPU (SoftBank) and AMD Instinct MI355X (AMD) both sit in Chips & Compute. AMD Instinct MI355X shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (3 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Graphcore IPU SoftBank | AMD Instinct MI355X AMD |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Chips & Compute | Chips & Compute |
| Version | Bow IPU | MI355X |
| Entry cost | System sales | Enterprise hardware, pricing not published |
| Pricing tiers | — | Open Source free |
| Model stack | n/a | CDNA · CDNA 4 · ROCm |
| Context window | — | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 3 |
| Origin | EU | Global |
| Capabilities | Wafer-on-wafer, Poplar SDK, Sparse compute | 288GB HBM3E, FP4/FP6 support, ROCm 7, open rack designs, DPX compute partition mode, CPX compute partition mode, NPS2 memory partitioning, GPU virtualization support |
AMD Instinct MI355X
288GB HBM3E accelerators with the ROCm software stack, used by several inference providers.
Full AMD Instinct MI355X record →