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AMD RDNA5 is reportedly entirely new architecture design , RDNA4 “merely a bug fix and improved RT for RDNA3”

Bernoulli

M2 slut
RDNA 3 GPU lineup didn't go as expected. The issues with RDNA 3 were caused by the final silicon not meeting internal performance projections and it was evident that the efficiency increase wasn't necessarily as much as it was hyped up to be. The NVIDIA "Ada" GPUs on the other hand destroyed AMD RDNA 3 chips in efficiency figures across all segments. Furthermore, AMD had to tone down its initial designs which were going to incorporate up to 192 MB of Infinity Cache to just 96 MB due to cost and power constraints



The GPU generation following RDNA 4 is expected to be built on a brand new architecture designed from the ground up and it isn't even known if AMD will retain the RDNA 5 branding for it or switch to something entirely new. The promise of the "Zen" moment has long been awaited in the Radeon family and RDNA 5 is expected to be just that.

AMD will be conducting a full case study and R&D when designing the next-gen architecture. RDNA 5 is also said to be the primary reason why RDNA 4 is being cut off so much so that more time can be put into perfecting the generation that comes after it all the while offering a mainstream series that doesn't require lots of development costs. The GPU architecture is also rumored to be used in the next-gen Medusa APU lineup featuring Zen 6 cores.



 

Soodanim

Member
terry crews fingers crossed GIF by America's Got Talent
 

Tams

Member
One one hand, RDNA has been okay, and done well in the iGPU space (albeit with increasing competition, even from Intel).

On the other... Nvidia haven't had decent competition.

I see this is finally purging the effect and influence of Raja Koduri. He was no Jim Keller, that's for sure.
 
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