The idea that navi is a single gpu design that stretches across both gddr6 and hbm2 is a little odd, and likely reflects the fact that navi is being used to refer to a new architecture rather than. Amd gave us a sneak peek at its new vega graphics card architecture way back at ces 2017. what we didn’t know then, though, is that it wouldn’t end up in the hands of consumers until august. Amd today announced the radeon™ pro v340 graphics card, a high-performance dual-gpu virtual desktop infrastructure (vdi) solution purpose-built to power and accelerate the most demanding datacenter visualization workloads, including cad, design, desktop as a service (daas) and rendering..
Amd has had an amazing couple of years, and an even better 2017 with the mega success of ryzen and ryzen threadripper knocking intel down from its uber-throne. but what about the gpu division? amd. Amd may be headed back to the well with polaris, this time launching the new gpu on a 12nm version of globalfoundries 14nm process node. there’s been rumor of this coming, though there have also. The next-gen gpu was revealed by an amd employee on phoronix forums and aside from the gpu name, he also mentioned that the new lineup of graphics cards would go back to the older naming scheme.
