AMD Supercomputers Take Gold and Silver in Latest Top500 as Chinese HPC Remains Shrouded in Secrecy

AMD supercomputers lead Top500 rankings with record exaflops

AMD-powered supercomputers El Capitan and Frontier lead the Top500 list with record exaflop performance, powering 172 of the world’s fastest systems.

AMD supercomputers take gold and silver in latest Top500 as Chinese HPC remains shrouded in secrecy

The Top500 project's 65th list of performance results reveals U.S. leadership in supercomputing. The AMD-based El Capitan, Frontier, and Intel-powered Aurora take the top three spots. AI-focused systems like Microsoft's Eagle and Germany’s GH200-powered Jupiter Booster make early appearances. China submitted no new entries for this Top500 edition.

El Capitan Retains Top Spot in 65th TOP500 List as Exascale Era Expands

The 65th edition of the TOP500 showed that the El Capitan system retains the No. 1 position. With El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora, there are now 3 Exascale systems leading the TOP500. All three are installed at Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories in the United States. The El Capitan system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, remains the No. 1 system on the TOP500. The HPE Cray EX255a system was measured with 1.742 EF…

Top500: the US retains the top three supercomputers with El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora; the US has 173 of the top 500 to Europe's 163 and China's 46

Doug Black / InsideHPC: Top500: the US retains the top three supercomputers with El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora; the US has 173 of the top 500 to Europe's 163 and China's 46  —  The new TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, released this morning at the ISC 2025 conference in Germany …