This year AMD will not bring to market a wide range of graphics cards Sea Islands, which are, in fact, some revised version of Southern Islands, and present an entirely new solutions Volcanic Islands, .
In the new architecture of GPUs, AMD intends to make the most sweeping changes since the previous three (VLIW5, VLIW4 and Graphics Core Next). The GPU named Hawaii, will combine modules serial data (Serial Processing Modules, SPM) and parallel computation module (Parallel Compute Module, PCM). First subtly suggestive of modern AMD processors with a modular architecture Bulldozer or Piledriver: the same modules, consisting of two cores, their common block floating point (FPU) and the cache memory of the second-level cache in the third level. The second is similar in structure to the GPU microarchitecture GCN . SPMs third level cache and the second shared cache level PCM connected via a universal Northbridge, which in turn communicates with the controller hub, providing clearly defined interfaces support.
We should also mention the 512-bit memory controller which supports error correcting codes, co-processor architecture ARM Cortex-A5, in charge of security, as well as a number of additional controllers and sensors. Do not forget about support of PCI Express 3.0 and DisplayPort 1.2.
Graphics solution Hawaii has 8 SPM, 4 geometry units, 256 texture units, 64 blocks ROP and 4096 stream processors. This computational monster will be produced on 20 nm technology. Related Products :
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