Without much noise on the AMD website this week, a general RDNA graphics architecture, and although its main part is understandable only to narrow specialists and game graphics enthusiasts, some statements on behalf of the company in the text of this document confirm that this architecture will give life to several generations of future products not only from AMD, but also from its partners. The head of the company at the quarterly reporting conference that in the coming months AMD will introduce more powerful video cards from the Navi family. Leading AMD marketer Scott Herkelman said earlier in an interview with HotHardware that the company intends to update the entire range of graphics solutions, although he did not dare to talk about a specific announcement schedule.
The block diagram of the Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU in the AMD documentation mentions that this is one of the first carriers of the RDNA architecture. Moreover, the annotation under the illustration contains a direct indication that there will be several such GPUs.
It further clarifies that the Radeon RX 5700 and Radeon RX 5700 XT should replace both the Vega generation and the Polaris generation. In June, AMD representatives had to , according to which the supply of Radeon RX Vega 64 and Radeon RX Vega 56 video cards should have ceased in the near future, and the GCN architecture itself, underlying them, could find further application in certain market segments - it is possible that in conjunction with HBM2 memory . And only from unofficial sources it became known that the supply of Radeon VII, the last representative of the Vega family in the consumer market, will be curtailed in the gaming segment.
Finally, in the final part of the document on the RDNA architecture, the company makes a statement according to which the first-born of the architecture in the face of the Radeon RX 5700 series video cards should be considered high-performance products, but along the way, further expansion of the range of gaming solutions with the RDNA architecture should be expected. Processors for smartphones and tablets with integrated graphics of the RDNA generation will also appear, but not in the product range of AMD itself, but with the company's partners. The name of such a partner is already known - the corresponding agreement was concluded with Samsung, and the first mobile processors with new generation AMD graphics will appear in the Korean giant's model line in a couple of years.
Source: 3dnews.ru