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I half expected them to move their GPU to a chiplet design this year. Also, curious if their APUs next year will be Zen3+RDND2. They have tended to be a year b

I half expected them to move their GPU to a chiplet design this year. Also, curious if their APUs next year will be Zen3+RDND2. They have tended to be a year behind when they integrate the two. But I suspect the extra interactions between teams will fix it this time around.

bob1029 6y ago
I think chiplet design is coming with RDNA3. AMD has been putting out material regarding CDNA & InfinityFabric 3 for the datacenter market. See: https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/AMD-IF.jpg https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/AMD-I...
shantara 6y ago
RDNA2 seems to be based on the R&D AMD already done for Sony and Microsoft when designing new consoles. It brings largely the same architecture and feature set to the PC platform, with the exception of the proprietary storage technologies. I think it's going to be the next year when we'll see AMD making some improvements beyond the current console status quo.
- zamadatix 6y ago
  It wasn't in the video announcement but AMD has confirmed Microsoft's DirectStorage API will be supported on RDNA2 cards in Windows 10. Worth noting Nvidia also got onboard this train with the 3xxx GPUs as well so it's not some console only proprietary feature.
llampx 6y ago
Being realistic, I believe they will hamstring their desktop APUs to stay at an entry-level performance-wise, firstly because APUs are generally bought by the budget-conscious, and secondly because why cannibalize their own product line by not selling a separate CPU and GPU to the discerning gamer? Laptops are a different story. I started thinking this way after seeing basically no improvement from the 2200G and 2400G to the 3400G.