New amd gpus roadmap for 2016

AMD's plans for its graphics cards until 2018 have been leaked recently, showing that the company will begin adopting HBM2 memory in 2017 and transition to a new memory standard in 2018.

Sadly, this new roadmap doesn't include information on AMD's upcoming Polaris architecture, but at least it confirms that the company won't be using HBM2 memory.

The company also said it expects up to a 2.5-fold increase in performance per watt with the new Polaris GPU, so this architecture will perform even better than initially anticipated with the 14nm FinFET manufacturing process.

In addition, the Polaris architecture will also offer a new command processor as well as a new graphics engine. The new processor will help AMD improve asynchronous computing tasks with the new DirectX 12 API.

Although Polaris does not benefit from support for HBM2 memory, the Vega architecture planned for 2017 will be the first GPU to feature this memory, so Polaris GPUs will continue to use GDDR5 memory, or even GDDR5X.

AMD's new roadmap also confirms that the next generation of GPUs will use DP 1.3 and HDMI 2.0 display connections, thus enabling the connection of the most modern monitors on the market, in addition to enabling 4K playback at 120 Hz and other advanced functions.

Finally, in 2018, the company plans the implementation of the Navi architecture that will have a next-generation memory whose name is unknown.

Hopefully this is the first leak of many others regarding the upcoming GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA, although today we are already addressing another leak according to which the new series of AMD Radeon M400 cards includes mainly renamed units in order to attract new buyers.