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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

AMD UDNA to unify gaming and data-center GPU architectures, successor to RDNA and CDNA

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-udna-to-unify-gaming-and-data-center-gpu-architectures-successor-to-rdna-and-cdna

About time, splitting up RDNA and CDNA was probably a big drain on resources for AMD as programmers and developers had tpo pull double duty to get both functioning.

The worst part is that they chose the worst time to make the split from GCN to RDNA+CDNA. GCN was a very capable compute architecture, which was kind of useless back then and took die space for more shaders, so they went and removed it... just when Nvidia launched added their compute heavy Tensor cores in their gaming GPUs, paving the way for DLSS and Ray Tracing.

If AMD had waited one extra gen, they would have had something to match or one-up Nvidia. But they didn't, and it has hurt them.

We'll see how long it takes for the merge, likely a couple of generations given how long they start planning new architectures before they become an actual product, and what does this merge bring to the table.