Thursday, September 27th 2018
AMD "Navi" GPU Architecture Successor Codenamed "Arcturus"?
Arcturus is the fourth brightest star in the night sky, and could be the a new GPU architecture by AMD succeeding "Navi," according to a Phoronix report. The codename of Navi-successor has long eluded AMD's roadmap slides. The name "Arcturis" surfaced on Phoronix community forums, from a post by an AMD Linux liaison who is a member there. The codename is also supported by the fact that AMD is naming its GPU architectures after the brightest stars in the sky (albeit in a descending order of their brightness). Polaris is the brightest, followed by Vega, Navi, and Arcturus.
AMD last referenced the Navi-successor on a roadmap slide during its 2017 Financial Analyst Day presentation by Mark Papermaster. That slide mentioned "Vega" to be built on two silicon fabrication processes, 14 nm and "14 nm+." We know now that AMD intends to build a better-endowed "Vega" chip on 7 nm, which could be the world's first 7 nm GPU. "Navi" is slated to be built on 7 nm as the process becomes more prevalent in the industry. The same slide mentions Navi-successor as being built on "7 nm+," which going by convention, could refer to an even more advanced process than 7 nm. Unfortunately, even in 2017, when the industry was a touch more optimistic about 7 nm, AMD expected the Navi-successor to only come out by 2020. We're not holding our breath.
Source:
Phoronix
AMD last referenced the Navi-successor on a roadmap slide during its 2017 Financial Analyst Day presentation by Mark Papermaster. That slide mentioned "Vega" to be built on two silicon fabrication processes, 14 nm and "14 nm+." We know now that AMD intends to build a better-endowed "Vega" chip on 7 nm, which could be the world's first 7 nm GPU. "Navi" is slated to be built on 7 nm as the process becomes more prevalent in the industry. The same slide mentions Navi-successor as being built on "7 nm+," which going by convention, could refer to an even more advanced process than 7 nm. Unfortunately, even in 2017, when the industry was a touch more optimistic about 7 nm, AMD expected the Navi-successor to only come out by 2020. We're not holding our breath.
43 Comments on AMD "Navi" GPU Architecture Successor Codenamed "Arcturus"?
They did change this within a few weeks after massive protests, but people have of course long forgotten.
7nm is gonna cost a LOT too when it comes out, so itll take a few years for prices to fall, assuming AMD ever competes again.
On a serious note; their GPU department is burning money right now, if they could make a better GPU they would.
Burning money, so they're making a loss, this based on what exactly?
Vega 56 fit that mold well, as the middle-high end gray area sells well and has fat margins, it was just a year too late.
Modular with two gpu an Nnapi chip and something for rays(chip) on one package.
Who knows , it's a good pr spoiler, traditional style now RTX is out.
In 2 years time we can have WWIII on our hands and people getting all excited about code-name of a VGA line that may not even materialize in 5-6 years time frame? :wtf: I missed some memo somewhere. In a word of immortal Anthony McAuliffe: Nuts!