Monday, October 14th 2024
AMD to Reduce RDNA 4 "Navi 44" Chip Package Size
GPU chip packages of the "Navi 4x" generation of GPUs could be generationally smaller than their predecessors, according to leaked package dimensions of the "Navi 44" chip put out by Olrak29_. With its next-generation Radeon RX gaming GPUs based on the RDNA 4 graphics architecture, AMD has decided to focus on gaining market-share in the performance and mainstream segments, ceding the enthusiast segment to NVIDIA. As part of its effort, the company is making RDNA 4 efficient at every level—architecture, process, and package.
At the architecture level, RDNA 4 is expected to improve performance, particularly the performance cost of ray tracing, through a more specialized ray tracing hardware stack. At the process level, AMD is expected to switch to a more efficient foundry node, with some reports suggesting the TSMC 4 nm, such as the N4P or N4X. For a mid-range GPU like the "Navi 44," which succeeds the "Navi 23" and "Navi 33," these mean a rather big leap from the 7 nm or 6 nm DUV nodes. The leak suggests a smaller package, measuring 29 mm x 29 mm. In comparison, the "Navi 23" package measures 35 mm x 35 mm. The smaller package could make these GPUs friendlier with gaming notebooks, where mainboard PCB real-estate is at a premium.
Source:
Olrak29_ (Twitter)
At the architecture level, RDNA 4 is expected to improve performance, particularly the performance cost of ray tracing, through a more specialized ray tracing hardware stack. At the process level, AMD is expected to switch to a more efficient foundry node, with some reports suggesting the TSMC 4 nm, such as the N4P or N4X. For a mid-range GPU like the "Navi 44," which succeeds the "Navi 23" and "Navi 33," these mean a rather big leap from the 7 nm or 6 nm DUV nodes. The leak suggests a smaller package, measuring 29 mm x 29 mm. In comparison, the "Navi 23" package measures 35 mm x 35 mm. The smaller package could make these GPUs friendlier with gaming notebooks, where mainboard PCB real-estate is at a premium.
16 Comments on AMD to Reduce RDNA 4 "Navi 44" Chip Package Size
Shame thay zig-zag that often- thay might have succeed by now. Instead they try to fight the (stupid) top-end RT battle against NV who wrote the rules. Winless battle.
Focus on raster only, lots or RAM and stay 20-30% cheaper than NV. You will gain your market share in one gen time.
Intel can and should do the same btw.
Still, one might use light RT effects if they are content with low FPS, or do it in older games where even an RX 7600 will suffice, or only enable RT for screenshots etc.This won't let anything better than parring Ada in FPS per W happen but... well, there's no "but."
And then in two years time we wonder why they can't compete even with an x70.
This not doing high end is a loser's strategy. It never lasts. The only logical result is AMD will zig zag back into high end costing them another 5-6 years.
The whole reason Nvidia dominates now is because they kept progressing while AMD was rebranding Hawaii XT and the 7970 for the second time, and then fumbled onwards into Fury X and Vega, only to arrive at RDNA1 far too late to really get RDNA2 going with RT proper. At that point their focus was still on the basic architecture, RT was 'a bonus feature'. RDNA3: focus on chiplet, RT was an afterthought. They're just too slow, and throughout all of this, the elephant in the room is not that you need to keep making last gen's performance GPUs, you need to progress your stuff ever forward. Every time AMD practically ground to halt, they lost market share. Polaris's revenue success came not from gaming, but from crypto.
Intel isn't really clawing in market share either with their A770, despite being dirt cheap.
Those two free AMD trash game free giveaway as I purchased Ryzen 7000 cpu / gpus had raytracing. Just bad implementation or lightning. It was not worth the wasted 70Watts for the gpu according to the windows 11 pro graphic card driver.I do not see a difference / an improvment with raytracing enabled.The game still looks like some nonsense. Best example is that recently game article here. I'll look at the pictures and wonder if people do not know how old houses looked like?