AMD's next-generation Radeon GPU can be 2.5 times more powerful

Despite the fact that AMD has just announced the Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards in late 2020 and the GPU is still hard to find because of supply issues, innovation has not stopped. AMD is said to be working on next-generation GPUs that use the company’s RDNA 3 microarchitecture, which can give the graphics cards 2.5 times more performance than currently available on The company’s premium Radeon RX 6900 XT is today. The Radeon RX 6900 XT uses the same RDNA 2 architecture found on AMD’s chips for the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 consoles.

The RDNA 3 microarchitecture is also known as the Navi 31. It was previously speculated that AMD could tailor its chiplet usage from Ryzen to its Radeon graphics chip for high performance. than. This will be AMD’s first time using the chiplet on a graphics card, if these rumors prove to be true. Chiplet design is called MCM, or multi-chip module.

Twitter user @ Kepler_L2 it is speculated that RDNA 3 could appear with a total of 160 compute units due to that design change. That means AMD’s use of MCM can result in two chiplets, each containing 80 compute units. And follow Hot hardware, if the ratio of compute units and stream processors is constant, the new RDNA 3-enabled graphics cards can produce a massive 10,240 thread processors in total, almost double what is available with the Navi 21 above. Radeon RX 6900 XT.

The upgraded hardware will result in a 2.5x performance increase, according to Twitter users @_rogame. Hopefully the new architecture will allow future Radeon RX graphics cards to perform better at ray tracing, which will allow AMD to remain competitive with the latest RTX 3000 series GPUs. rival Nvidia is based on the Ampere architecture. While the Radeon RX 6000 series is a strong competitor to the RTX 3000 series, early reviews suggest ray tracing performance is not as strong as AMD cards.

In addition to the changes to the overall chip design, AMD is able to boost the performance of its GPU by using a larger Infinity Cache and a higher IPC on RDNA 3. On desktop, the graphics card supports RDNA. 3 could be referred to as Radeon RX 7000 series if AMD followed the current naming convention. The release date is still unknown when RDNA 3 will be released.

AMD is said to once again turn to partner TSMC to fabricate its RDNA 3 graphics silicon, possibly based on the new 5nm design. This would make the chipset compete with Intel’s Next Generation Vehicle and Nvidia’s unannounced Hopper GPU, both of which are rumored to be also manufactured using TSMC’s 5nm node, according to Tweaktown. AMD’s next-generation Zen 4 processor is also said to switch from a 7nm node to a smaller 5nm node, a move that will allow AMD to pack more transistors for even more processing efficiency. .