AMD Helios MI450 Rack at OCP Summit with a Different Version from Meta

This week, AMD had a lot of Helios. Not only did it announce a 50,000 GPU deal with Oracle, but it also showed off the mega AI rack targeted to launch later in 2026. What is more, at OCP Summit 2025, we saw not just the reference AI rack from AMD, but also a different version from Meta with some huge differences.

AMD Helios MI450 Reference Rack at OCP Summit 2025

This is the reference photo from AMD on the Helios rack. It was clearly taken before the show floor opened since there was nobody around it. While the show floor was open, there were crowds of folks just staring at this every time I walked by.

It took several minutes of waiting just to get this shot. On the top, we can see the management switch, and then power.

Here is a closer look at the power shelves with compute nodes below. Something that is clear is that this is an OCP rack, beyond the ORv3 wide rack.

In the center, we have the switches. This is in some ways similar to how NVIDIA has compute trays above and below its switch trays.

The handles here are quite beefy, especially on the switch trays. This entire rack was designed by the teams AMD acquired in the ZT Systems acquisition.

In case you were wondering, those look like NVIDIA optics. You can also see in the compute trays that only one of the two OCP NIC 3.0 slots are populated in and you can see the EDSFF E1.S SSDs on both sides as well. In the PCIe Gen6 generation 2.5″ U.2 connectors are no longer usable, so we will see a transition to EDSFF with Venice-based systems.

Below the compute trays, we see another set of power shelves.

Moving to the rear, we get fiber and the power shelves.

We cannot see the rear of the compute and switch racks because we have cable cartridges in the rear.

Here is the bottom with more power shelves.

This is neat, but let us get to the Meta booth to see their Helios rack next.