AMD’s upcoming flagship GPU could feature 4096 Stream Processors, as revealed by AMD’s employee via LikedIn profile.

AMD Greenland / Vega 10 — 4096 Stream Processors confirmed?

Guys over at 3DCenter discovered a very interesting piece of information. According to Yu Zheng LikenIn profile, who is a research and development manager at AMD, company has been working on new flagship graphics processing unit also known as Greenland or Vega 10.

The profile reveals that Greenland is the leading project of Graphic IP v9.0. In other words, this is the new flagship GPU that will succeed the most powerful Fiji processor currently offered by AMD.

The graphic IP level 9.0 most likely stands for Vega architecture (the first to feature HBM2 memory). The project is tied with AMD’s SoC (System on a Chip) v15 architecture, which could suggest that future AMD APUs could also be somewhat connected to Polaris and Vega GPUs.

If Greenland indeed features 4096 Stream Processors, it would therefore be exactly the same as Fiji. The upgrade to 14nm FinFET architecture would surely improve power efficiency. However would it also boost the performance per stream processor? Well, according to official slides yes, as AMD promised Graphics Core Next 4.0 will improve shader efficiency.

Also don’t forget that Stream Processors are not the only major processing units in GPU. AMD could also adjust the number of Raster Engines to 128, that would surely improve performance.

Here’s an updated chart comparing all known Polaris and Vega GPUs.

AMD Vega & Polaris GPUs (To Be Confirmed) March 26th 2016 AMD R9 490? AMD Fury X2 AMD R9 470? AMD R7 460? GPU Vega 10 / Greenland Fiji Polaris 10 / Ellesmere Polaris 11 / Baffin Fabrication Process 14nm FinFET 28nm 14nm FinFET 14nm FinFET Compute Units 64 64 36 ? Stream Processors 4096 4096 2560-2304 ? TMUs ? 256 ? ? ROPs ? 64 ? ? Computing Power ? 8.6 TFLOPS ~3.7 TFLOPs ? Core clock ? 1050 MHz ~800 MHz ~1000 MHz Memory Clock 1000 MHz 500 MHz ~1500 MHz (6 GHz) ~1750 MHz (7 GHz) Memory Bus 4096-bit 4096-bit 256-bit 128-bit Memory 8GB HBM2 4GB HBM1 8GB GDDR5 4GB GDDR5 Bandwidth ~1024 GB/s 512 GB/s 192 GB/s 112 GB/s Launch Date 2016/2017 June 2015 Q3 2016 Q3 2016

Source: LinkedIn via 3DCenter