Starting in 2012, the HD7970, AMD's GCN graphics architecture has been advanced five generations, the latest is Vega.
details as follows:
GCN first generation: Southern Islands
GCN second generation: Sea Islands
GCN third generation: Volcanic Islands
GCN fourth generation: Arctic Islands
GCN fifth generation: Vega
GCN sixth generation: Navi
According to the official roadmap, the sixth generation of GCN architecture code-named Navi, using 7nm process.
According to Wccftech reports, Navi will be the last of GCN's products, launched in 2019. From 2020 to 2021, AMD will complete the next generation of general-purpose graphics computing architecture updates.
The brokerage said before the head of RTG Raja Koduri switched to Intel, the new architecture generation work has already begun, and now with Wang Wang (David Wang) to join, will re-direct the R & D project.
Just as HD7000 series was born that year, GCN replaced the aging TeraScale architecture (HD2000 to 6000 series used) brought the peak performance of single-core graphics, The current news is that the next generation of AMD graphics architecture will achieve similar levels with 7nm + technology.
Accordingly, NVIDIA continues to CUDA or also come up with the corresponding new computing architecture, it is not yet known.Nowadays, the Volta architecture has no consumer products, the next generation of amp architecture will not be unveiled, also need to wait for the end of March at the GTC conference To be revealed.
