AMD To Integrate Consumer & Datacenters GPUs Into Unified “UDNA” Architecture, RDNA & CDNA Coming To An End
AMD is merging its consumer "RDNA" and Data Center "CDNA" GPUs under one unified architecture with the announcement of UDNA.
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AMD is merging its consumer "RDNA" and Data Center "CDNA" GPUs under one unified architecture with the announcement of UDNA.
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Ever since it bought GPU firm ATI Technologies in 2006, AMD has experimented with all kinds of graphics architectures. Its current approach, one for PC clients and the other for data and AI servers, will be swapped in favour of a completely unified architecture, bringing the best of both systems into one developer-friendly architecture.
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