AMD Announces Versal Premium Series Gen 2 Enabling New Levels of System Acceleration to Meet the Demands of Data-Intensive Workloads
12 November 2024 - 3:00PM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the AMD Versal™ Premium
Series Gen 2, an adaptive SoC platform designed to deliver the
highest levels of system acceleration for a wide range of
workloads. Versal Premium Series Gen 2 will be the FPGA industry’s
first devices featuring Compute Express Link (CXL®) 3.1 and PCIe®
Gen6 as well as LPDDR5X memory support in hard IP.1
These next-generation interface and memory
technologies access and move data rapidly and efficiently between
processors and accelerators. CXL 3.1 and LPDDR5X help unlock more
memory resources faster to address the growing real-time processing
and storage demands of data-intensive applications in data center,
communications, test and measurement, and aerospace and defense
markets.
“System architects are constantly looking to pack
more data into smaller spaces and move data more efficiently
between parts of the system,” said Salil Raje, senior vice
president and general manager, Adaptive and Embedded Computing
Group, AMD. “Our latest addition to the Versal Gen 2 portfolio
helps customers improve overall system throughput and utilization
of memory resources to achieve the highest performance and unlock
insights for their most demanding applications from the cloud to
the edge.”
Accelerate Host Connectivity AMD
champions open innovation through its support of CXL, an open
industry-standard interconnect between processors and devices such
as FPGA-based accelerators. With support for CXL 3.1 and PCIe Gen6,
the industry’s fastest host interfaces,2 Versal Premium Gen 2
devices enable industry-leading, high-bandwidth host
CPU-to-accelerator connectivity. PCIe Gen6 offers a 2-4X faster
line rate compared to competing FPGAs with PCIe Gen4 or Gen5
support,2 while CXL 3.1 running PCIe Gen6 provides double the
bandwidth of competing devices with CXL 2.13 at similar latencies,
as well as enhanced fabric and coherency capabilities.
Additionally, by pairing Versal Premium Series Gen
2 with an AMD EPYC™ CPUs, system architects can leverage the latest
AMD FPGA-based device connected via CXL or PCIe to a
high-performance CPU, to accelerate data-intensive applications and
meet rapid data growth demands. CXL also brings an additional
benefit of memory coherency to help enable true heterogeneous,
accelerated computing.
Increasing Memory Bandwidth and
UtilizationAMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2 adaptive SoCs
accelerate memory bandwidth for faster data transfers and real-time
responsiveness with the fastest LPDDR5X memory connectivity
available, at up to 8533 Mb/s. This ultra-fast, enhanced DDR memory
enables up to 2.7X faster host connectivity over comparable
competitive devices with LPDDR4/5 memory.4
Connectivity to CXL memory expansion modules enable
up to 2.7X more total bandwidth than LPDDR5X memory alone.5 As a
result, the Versal Premium Series Gen 2 allows for scalable memory
pooling and extension for multiple accelerators, optimizing memory
utilization and increasing bandwidth and capacity.
By dynamically allocating a memory pool for
multiple devices, Versal Premium Series Gen 2 adaptive SoCs are
designed to improve memory utilization in a Multi-Headed Single
Logic Device (MH-SLD), allowing it to operate without a fabric or
switch, while supporting up to two CXL hosts.
Strengthen Data Security Enhanced
security features help the Versal Premium Series Gen 2 transfer
data quickly and securely, both in transit and at rest. It is the
industry’s first FPGA device to feature support for integrated
PCIe® Integrity and Data Encryption (IDE) in hard IP.6 Inline
encryption built into hard DDR memory controllers helps secure data
at rest, while 400G High-Speed Crypto Engines help the device
secure user data at up to 2X faster line rates, enabling faster
secure data transactions.7
AMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2 development tools
are expected to be available in Q2 2025, followed by the
availability of silicon samples by early 2026. Production shipments
are expected to begin in the second half of 2026.
Supporting Resources
- Learn more about the AMD Versal™ Premium Series Gen 2
- Learn more about the AMD Versal™ product portfolio
- Connect with AMD on LinkedIn
- Follow AMD on X
About AMDFor more than 50 years
AMD has driven innovation in high-performance computing, graphics
and visualization technologies. Billions of people, leading Fortune
500 businesses and cutting-edge scientific research institutions
around the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they
live, work and play. AMD employees are focused on building
leadership high-performance and adaptive products that push the
boundaries of what is possible. For more information about how AMD
is enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the AMD (NASDAQ:
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X pages.
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, EPYC, Versal, and
combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
CXL is a trademark of Compute Express Link
Consortium, Inc. PCI, PCIe, and PCI Express are trademarks of
PCI-SIG and used under license. Other names are for informational
purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Media Contacts:Mike
Sanchez AMD Communications+1 209-262-7458
M.Sanchez@amd.com
Mitch HawsAMD Investor Relations+1
408-749-2845Mitch.Haws@amd.com
____________________1 Based on an AMD internal
analysis of AMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2 devices with CXL 3.1
and PCIe Gen6 vs. comparable competitive devices without CXL 3.1
and/or with PCIe Gen 4/5, as of July 2024. (VER-055)2 Based on an
AMD internal analysis of the Versal Premium Series Gen 2 devices
with PCIe Gen6 vs. comparable competitive and prior generation AMD
Versal Premium Series devices with PCIe Gen4/5, as of July 2024.
Actual line rate speeds will vary based on system configuration and
other factors. (VER-057)3 Based on an AMD internal analysis of
Versal Premium Series Gen 2 devices with CXL 3.1 vs. comparable
competitive device(s) with CXL 2.0, as of July 2024. Actual line
rate speed will vary based on system configuration and other
factors. (VER-056)4 Based on an AMD internal analysis of Versal
Premium Series Gen 2 device DDR/LPDDR memory interface
specifications vs. comparable competitive devices, as of July 2024.
Actual performance will vary based on system configuration and
other factors. (VER-058)5 Based on an AMD internal analysis of the
total memory bandwidth (CXL 3.1 and LPDDR5X memory components)
available with Versal Premium Series Gen 2 devices vs. the same
devices with LPDDR5X memory alone. Memory bandwidth will vary based
on system configuration and other factors. (VER-059)6 Based on AMD
internal analysis in October 2024, AMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2
devices include the PCIe Integrity and Data Encryption feature,
while the competition does not. (VER-064)7 Based on AMD internal
analysis of Versal Premium Series Gen 2 devices with 400 Gb/s
high-speed crypto engines vs. comparable competitive devices with
200 Gb/s crypto engines. Actual line rate speeds will vary based on
system configuration and other factors. (VER-062)
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