An image of a brand new chip has surfaced on social media, which appears as if it might be a design for a brand new dual-GPU AMD Radeon graphics card. The picture is not like any current AMD chip, with two identically-sized chiplets sitting aspect by aspect, however no I/O chip, which you’d anticipate on a CPU, and no small Infinity Cache chips, which you’d anticipate on a GPU.
The AMD RDNA 4 launch is now set for 2025, however this new lineup of GPUs was anticipated to be monolithic, which means the GPU is all primarily based on one chip, quite than a number of chiplets. Nonetheless, AMD actually has the expertise to make chip packages containing a couple of GPU, because it’s demonstrated with its CDNA 2 knowledge middle chip tech. What’s extra, AMD not too long ago introduced that it’s now unifying RDNA and CDNA, so its gaming and knowledge middle chips will use the identical core structure. If AMD may construct a brand new Radeon GPU with this tech, it may probably make the most effective graphics card ever.
Is there a brand new dual-GPU Radeon within the works? That’s inconceivable to say proper now, however let’s check out the supply of this picture (proven beneath) that’s doing the rounds. So far as I can inform, it was first posted by an X (previously Twitter) person referred to as Ayxerious, with only one phrase; “attention-grabbing.” It’s not a desktop CPU, and it additionally appears very completely different from the AMD Strix Halo diagrams we’ve seen up to now, which have a big GPU chiplet and smaller CPU chiplets.
It’s since been shared on the Chiphell boards, the place it’s being mentioned as a possible image of the forthcoming AMD Navi48 GPU. This chip is anticipated to have 56 compute items – that’s not a design I’d anticipate to be cut up over two chiplets, until AMD has particularly designed RDNA 4 to be primarily based on including additional similar chiplets as a way to scale upward.
That’s not out of the query, AMD does this with its CPUs in spite of everything, however nobody was anticipating to see it with RDNA 4. In actual fact, the rumor was that AMD was engaged on a multiple-chiplet design for what may have been the Radeon RX 8900 XTX, however then canceled it.
Both approach, Ayxerious doesn’t seem like joyful about this hypothesis, with a follow-up put up responding to tech leaker HXL sharing the Chiphell dialogue, saying, “I’m the one who posted it right here first. And a few fool reposted it on chiphell and now it’s a premiere leak. Bro…” Let’s face it, this image may additionally simply be a faux, however it does seem to have captured individuals’s imaginations.
I’m nonetheless not anticipating RDNA 4 Radeon RX 8000 graphics playing cards to have a number of GPU chiplets in a single package deal, however AMD may undoubtedly make such a product sooner or later, and that might maybe be what this image reveals. Making a scalable GPU chiplet structure is sensible from an economics standpoint, as you’ll be able to simply use the identical chip over once more in numerous playing cards, however simply put extra of them within the package deal as the ability (and worth) will increase.
AMD has additionally come a good distance for the reason that flaky days of CrossFire, and if it have been to provide a multi-chiplet GPU, I’d anticipate Home windows to see it as one chip, with the chiplets linked by a really high-speed interconnect. That is all pure hypothesis at this level, although, a couple of chip image that could be the results of somebody having a play at our expense in Photoshop.
AMD isn’t the one firm anticipated to unveil new GPUs in 2025 both. If you wish to see what might be in retailer from the competitors, take a look at our Nvidia RTX 5000 information, the place we take you thru every thing we all know in regards to the new GPUs up to now.
