#chiplet GPU design

AMD appears to be developing a new generation of GPUs that could revive multi-chiplet designs for consumer gaming. According to the LinkedIn profile of AMD senior fellow Laks Pappu, the company is working on “competitive 2.5D/3.5D chiplet-based and monolithic graphic SoCs” for future Radeon GPUs. This suggests that AMD's next-gen RDNA 5 graphics cards, codenamed Navi 5x, could include more advanced packaging technologies, potentially introducing multi-tile GPU designs to the mainstream market. Pappu joined AMD in 2022 after decades at Intel, where he worked on GPU designs like DG1 and Alchemist, as well as experimental multi-tile architectures. Developing a chiplet-based GPU for gamers is far more complex than for CPUs. Despite the challenges, AMD already has experience with chiplet designs in its CPUs and even in its Navi 31 GPUs, which disaggregate memory and cache functions. That gives him significant control over the shift toward chiplet designs in gaming GPUs if they prove viable. If its silicon proves successful, we could see a dramatic shift in GPU design that could once again separate AMD from Nvidia in terms of innovation. Read more in our articles including "AMD may bring multi-chiplet GPUs with upcoming RDNA 5 architecture" and "Europe enters the MLBB esports scene with first PGL Mobile Legends Challengers tournament".