MiniMax says MI355X is nearing B200 for serving its 428B multimodal model
salykova_ · x · 2026-07-23
MiniMax says it is working with hardware vendors to improve inference performance and keep the stack open. In a quoted note, Ryan Lee says AMD MI355X is now close to Nvidia B200 for serving MiniMax-M3.
The company points to two technical blogs covering full-stack ATOM + ATOMesh co-optimization for its 428B MSA sparse MoE multimodal base model. The optimization details include:
- EAGLE3 speculative decoding to reduce generation latency
- MSA-aligned Page-16 KV cache for 1M long context
- Layer-wise FP8 quantization to avoid precision loss in vision/MoE parts
- Distributed P/D separation for large clusters
The post is mainly about serving efficiency, long-context infrastructure, and hardware/software co-design.
Related event: MiniMax Claims AMD MI355X Serving Performance Nears Nvidia B200(2 posts)→
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