AMD Radeon “Greenland” gets specifications

New graphic architectures loom on the horizon. During the year, both AMD and Nvidia take the step to new manufacturing technologies, something that guarantees higher energy efficiency and higher performance. Many details remain about what the duo has in store, but now it appears what may be the first specifications for AMD’s new graphics card.

On Linkedin, AMD engineer Yu Zheng has revealed what the specifications will be for the graphics circuit Greenland, which is believed to go by the official name Vega. The profile with associated details has been taken down, but 3DCenter was quick to take a screenshot.

In the description, Greenland is mentioned as a leading graphics circuit, which indicates that it is a top model. Interesting in this context is that the number of stream processors is 4,096, ie the same as for the graphics circuit Fiji XT used in the company’s current flagship Radeon R9 Fury X.

Instead of more computing units, the performance improvements are expected to come from a new architecture. Where Fiji XT is based on Graphics Core Next 3.0, AMD’s next generations will build on Graphics Core Next 4.0, where everything from power consumption to performance, multimedia and features will be improved.

Assuming that AMD Greenland belongs to the Vega graphics family, it is not only a new architecture that is on the menu. One of the highlights for Vega is the introduction of memory technology High Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM), which will be used by both AMD and Nvidia to provide a memory bandwidth of as much as 1 TB / s – double up from today’s record holder Radeon R9 Fury X with its 512 GB / s.

According to AMD’s own product plans, the launch of Vega with HBM2 memory will take place in early 2017. Before that, Polaris arrives, which will apparently appear just in time for the summer and Computex 2016.