Yesterday in Austin, Texas, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su took the stage for some important announcements about the company’s upcoming Zen 4 CPUs. (opens in new tab) Architecture. On top of that, we got a taster of his RDNA 3, which Su confirmed utilizes his Ryzen-like chiplet design.
In June, Sam Neffziger, product technology architect at AMD, said that the upcoming RDNA 3 design will feature discrete computing and I/O chiplets rather than AMD’s Aldebaran with a pair of large CDNA 2 chips. Alluded to being similar to the Ryzen design. interconnect between them.When asked about it, he said the chiplet design was “reasonable speculation.” (opens in new tab).”
In so many words: “Yes, but I can’t say anything about it.” And now these influences are officially confirmed by the CEO himself.
“Combining a cutting-edge gaming architecture with a 5-nanometer triplet, RDNA 3 GPUs deliver over 50% more performance-per-watt than current-generation Radeon GPUs.”
Alongside a Ryzen 9 7950x CPU, we got to see a pre-production RDNA 3 card in action P’s lie (opens in new tab) by Neowiz. It looks pretty smooth on the 4K resolution super setting, but that was the last RDNA-related mention.
We don’t know about pricing yet, but using a chiplet-based architecture definitely improves AMD’s efficiency. The same approach allowed Ryzen CPUs to pack more cores via smaller chiplets, while also being much cheaper to manufacture than low-yield CPUs with monolithic chips.
AMD says RDNA 3 will launch in some form later this year (opens in new tab)There’s still a bit of a way to go before next-gen Radeon GPUs hit the desktop, but at least AMD is taking steps to ensure the efficiency of its gaming GPU architecture.
