And ensures that Zen 3 processors and RDNA 2 GPUs arrive in a few weeks.
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During the presentation of its financial results for the second quarter, in addition to announcing a turnover up 26% compared to the previous year, AMD gave some information regarding the future. Unlike Intel, the company’s roadmap is respected. Lisa Su has thus guaranteed the launch of Zen 3 chips for data centers and the general public by the end of 2020. In other words, the Milan processors in the first case, the Ryzen 4000 Vermeer in the second.
Confirmation also of marketing before 2021 for general public GPUs under RDNA2 architecture and GPU CDNA. As a reminder, the RDNA2 architecture will introduce the ray tracing material on the side of the red stable, as well as the Variable Rate Shading – technologies which will, moreover, be integrated into the consoles next-generation, the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, and whose appearance was not a big secret in the PC market. AMD speaks of an ‘ratio performance / Watt increased by almost 50%“, Compared to the current RDNA architecture. The CDNA architecture is aimed at the HPC sector. It is therefore articulated in particular around units doped in tensor computing, in the vein of the Tensor cores of NVIDIA GPUs.
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Uncertainty over RDNA 3 architecture
Regarding the Zen 4 micro-architecture, Lisa Su also certified that it would be 5nm. This concerns EPYC Genoa processors, which can be found in particular in the El Capitan supercomputer. It is therefore assumed that the “Ryzen 5000”, the successors of the Ryzen 4000, will benefit from the same treatment. The Zen 4 architecture should thus see the light of day by the end of 2021 / early 2022, according to the presentation.
On the other hand, for RDNA 3 GPUs, the engraving fineness remains unknown. The company simply specifies that they will benefit from an “advanced node”.
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