A recent LLVM compiler submission provides another technical indicator of how AMD is shaping its next-generation RDNA 5 graphics architecture, also associated with the broader UDNA transition.

NVidia's GPUs adorn desktops to supercomputers/HPC (high performance computing) clusters. GPUs in general have changed the way developers view parallel computing. NVidia's CUDA (see Programming The ...

AMD's new RDNA architecture is a major advancement over and above GCN. If it delivers the improvements AMD has promised, it'll be the company's most important GPU launch since 2012. Let's take a look ...

AMD’s Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) hardware framework provides Heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access (hUMA) to CPUs and GPUs (Fig. 1). It radically changes the way CPUs and GPUs will interact ...

Intel launches oneAPI, a unified and scalable programming model to harness the power of diverse computing architectures in the era of HPC/AI convergence. Intel introduces a general-purpose GPU ...

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This is shaping up to be an exciting year in graphics. AMD is planning to launch a beefier version of Navi with support for real-time ray tracing, NVIDIA has its Ampere GPUs on the horizon, and Intel ...

At this year's Technology Tour event, Intel gave us a detailed insight into its latest processor design, codenamed Panther Lake. Boasting a new process node to unify the best aspects of Lunar Lake and ...

Seismic workloads are limited by memory, causing GPU compute units to stay idle. Dataflow computing enhances utilization and efficiency for seismic HPC workloads. Maverick-2 enables seismic ...

AMD's new RDNA architecture is a major advancement over and above GCN. If it delivers the improvements AMD has promised, it'll be the company's most important GPU launch since 2012. Let's take a look ...