Chip maker AMD, has announced that it is building on its strong product security portfolio with expanded features after it revealed it has joined the Confidential Computing Consortium, a group of leading hardware and software companies working to close gaps to protect data through its entire lifecycle.
To address the growing number and diversity of GPU workloads, AMD announced a multi-generational roadmap to deliver two optimised graphics architectures for gaming and data centre compute markets.
The AMD Radeon DNA architecture was designed for gaming and is currently powering the award-winning AMD Radeon RX 5000 series GPUs.
According to the company, the next-generation AMD RDNA 2 architecture is planned to deliver a 50% performance-per-watt improvement over the first-generation AMD RDNA architecture. It will support hardware-accelerated ray tracing, variable rate shading (VRS) and other advanced features. The first AMD RDNA 2-based products are expected to launch in late 2020. AMD has also unveiled its new AMD Compute DNA architecture, designed to accelerate data centre compute workloads. The first-generation AMD CDNA architecture, planned to launch later this year, includes second generation AMD Infinity Architecture to enhance GPU to GPU connectivity and is optimised for machine learning and high-performance computing applications. The follow-up AMD CDNA 2 architecture will support third generation AMD Infinity Architecture to enable next generation exascale-class supercomputers.
