Thursday, September 15th 2022

AMD RDNA3 Radeon RX 7000 Flagship GPU PCB Sketched

Here's the very first sketch of an AMD RDNA3 Radeon RX 7000-series flagship graphics card with the "Navi 31" chip in the middle. This will be AMD's first chiplet-based GPU built on a philosophy similar to that of the Ryzen desktop and EPYC server processors. The main number crunching machinery that benefits the most from the latest foundry process, will be built on 5 nm logic chiplets (up to two of these on the "Navi 31," one of these on the "Navi 32"), while the components that don't really benefit from the latest process, such as the memory controllers, display/media accelerators, etc., will be disintegrated into chiplets built on a slightly older node, such as 6 nm. This way AMD gets to maximize its 5 nm allocation at TSMC, which it has to share among not just the logic tiles of RDNA3 GPUs, but also its "Zen 4" processors.

The top-dog "Navi 31" silicon is expected to feature a 384-bit wide GDDR6 memory interface, which is why you see 12 memory chips surrounding the GPU package. AMD is expected to deploy fast 19-21 Gbps class GDDR6 memory chips, as well as double-down on the Infinity Cache technology. The package looks like a GPU die surrounded by HBM stacks, but those are actually the memory/display chiplets. If this PCB is from an AMD reference design, it could be the biggest hint that AMD isn't switching over to the 12+4 pin ATX 12HPWR connector just yet, and could stick with three 8-pin PCIe connectors for power, just like the current RX 6950 XT. USB-C with DisplayPort passthrough could prominently feature with RDNA3 graphics cards, besides standard DisplayPort and HDMI connectors.
Source: Igor's Lab
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29 Comments on AMD RDNA3 Radeon RX 7000 Flagship GPU PCB Sketched

#26
ModEl4
@btarunr
Do you have info regarding the below assumption?

«will be built on 5 nm logic chiplets (up to two of these on the "Navi 31," one of these on the "Navi 32"»

Because the rumors from leakers and the pic in your article are suggesting single monolithic logic chiplet for the flagship.
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#27
JAB Creations
FluffmeisterNice sketch, meanwhile Nvidia have warehouses stocked and ready to ship?
Nvidia is only successful because fan boys are so ineffably oblivious.
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#28
doc7000
This sketch has 12 Vram chips, which if 1gig modules means 12GB of Vram though if 2 gig modules then that is 24GB of vram. So Nvidia is going to 48GB on their flagship if this turns out to be true for AMD.
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#29
Hofnaerrchen
Would have been "nice" if you had named the source of this sketch in your article. It is obviously by igorslab.de as it can be seen on the image but this should have been mentioned in the first sentence.
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