New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs

Oracle on Tuesday revealed it would field more than 18 zettaFLOPS worth of AI infrastructure from Nvidia and AMD by the second half of next year.

This includes a cluster of 800,000 Nvidia GPUs capable of delivering up to 16 zettaFLOPS of peak AI performance — that's sparse FP4 in case you're wondering. 

The cluster, part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Zettascale10 offering, is a big win for Nvidia, which isn't only furnishing the GPUs and rack systems, but also the networking. Stitching the GPUs together will be Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet switching platform, marking the latest large scale cluster built around the platform. If that weren't enough, Oracle also plans to offer a slew of Nvidia AI services through its cloud platform.

While Nvidia counts its billions, AMD expects to see 50,000 of its MI450X-series accelerators deployed at Oracle data centers in the second ...