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AMD Unveils Vega GPU Architecture With 512 Terabytes of Memory Address Space (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: AMD lifted the veil on its next generation GPU architecture, codenamed Vega, this morning. One of the underlying forces behind Vega's design is that conventional GPU architectures have not been scaling well for diverse data types. Gaming and graphics workloads have shown steady progress, but today's GPUs are used for much more than just graphics. In addition, the compute capability of GPUs may have been increasing at a good pace, but memory capacity has not kept up. Vega aims to improve both compute performance and addressable memory capacity, however, through some new technologies not available on any previous-gen architecture. First, is that Vega has the most scalable GPU memory architecture built to date with 512TB of address space. It also has a new geometry pipeline tuned for more performance and better efficiency with over 2X peak throughput per clock, a new Compute Unit design, and a revamped pixel engine. The pixel engine features a new draw stream binning rasterizer (DSBR), which reportedly improves performance and saves power. All told, Vega should offer significant improvements in terms of performance and efficiency when products based on the architecture begin shipping in a few months.
With Rizen coming out soon and a new GPU design that looks very advanced, AMD is set to make substantial progress in market share, as long as they don't screw up. I'm rooting for them. I had switched all of our shops new PC's to Intel when they released their 6th gen Core series as AMD was just too far behind. Teh consumer PC's were all AMD for the past five years or so. I wanna go back to AMD, as long as the new stuff performs. Don't let us down AMD!