AMD Instinct MI455X

The AMD Instinct MI455X is a CDNA 5 GPU for frontier AI, designed for the AMD Helios rack-scale system.

Vendor
AMD
Architecture
CDNA 5
Memory
432 GB HBM4
Memory bandwidth (TB/s)
23.3 TB/s
FP8 (TFLOPS)
20,100 TFLOPS
FP4 (PFLOPS)
40.3 PFLOPS
Form factor
Enhanced Accelerator Module (EAM), direct liquid cooling, Helios rack
Status
Announced

The MI455X has 432 GB of HBM4 at 23.3 TB/s and 320 billion transistors on TSMC 2nm and 3nm. AMD launched it with the Instinct MI400 series at Advancing AI 2026 on July 23, 2026. It is an Enhanced Accelerator Module (EAM) with direct liquid cooling and UALink scale-out. AMD lists peak OCP FP8 at 20.1 PFLOPS and OCP MXFP4 at 40.3 PFLOPS.

Memory (GB)
432 GB
Precision note (sparse or dense)
AMD lists peak OCP FP8 20.1 PFLOPS and OCP MXFP4 40.3 PFLOPS with no sparsity label (AMD gives separate structured-sparsity figures only for FP16, BF16 and INT8).
Launch
Launched July 23, 2026 (Advancing AI 2026)
Vendor source
amd.com
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Questions

How much memory does the AMD MI455X have?
The MI455X has 432 GB of HBM4 with 23.3 TB/s of memory bandwidth.
What is the MI455X’s FP8 and FP4 performance?
AMD lists peak OCP FP8 at 20.1 PFLOPS and OCP MXFP4 at 40.3 PFLOPS, with no sparsity label.
When was the AMD MI455X announced?
AMD launched it with the Instinct MI400 series at Advancing AI 2026 on July 23, 2026.
What is AMD Helios?
Helios is AMD’s rack-scale system that the MI455X is designed for, using Enhanced Accelerator Modules with direct liquid cooling.

Source

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