AMD unveiled their next generation Polaris, Vega and Navi graphics architectures at Capsaicin 2016. The event highlighted the upcoming generation of graphics architecture which will feature the latest iteration of the GCN cores available at the time of their launch. While AMD's upcoming generation of Polaris graphics cards is going to give Radeon a boost in the performance per watt department, the generation after that, codenamed Vega, is going to take performance to a whole new level.

The latest AMD GPU Architecture Roadmap was showcased at Capsaicin 2016.

AMD's Vega 10 GPU Features 4096 GCN 4.0 Stream Processors,Flagship GPUBased on the Vega Architecture, 14nm FinFET Process

The latest details on AMD's upcoming generation of graphics architecture comes straight from Videocardz (via 3DCenter). The sources managed to find some very critical details on AMD's upcoming Vega GPU which has also been known as Greenland. The decision to name AMD GPUs after stars rather than Islands happened after the Radeon Technology Group was formed which is being led by Raja Koduri. Under his leadership, the team at RTG presented their first roadmap to the audience at Capsaicin 2016.

According to the LinkedIn profile of Yu Zheng who is the manager of research and development at AMD, the upcoming Greenland GPU at its peak capacity, will feature 4096 stream processors. These are not the current generation stream processors but utilize the advancements made in the IP v9.0 generation of graphics SOCs under development by AMD. It is also noted that this chip is the "Leading Chip" of the first graphic IP v9.0 chip generation. You can see the image to the profile and listed details below:

The Linkedin Profile of an AMD employeehas revealed the specs of AMD's flagship Vega GPU.

Following the same approach as NVIDIA who put forward a roadmap for their upcoming GPUs, we got to see two new products, Vega and Navi. We know very well that AMD's Polaris architecture currently comprises of two chips. The Polaris 10 is the high-end graphics core which was demoed at Capsaicin while the Polaris 11 is the entry level graphics core which was demoed back at CES 2016. Both chips are based on the 14nm FinFET architecture from Global Foundries and are expected to feature up to 2.5x the performance per watt compared to the currently available GCN revision.

Radeon Pro Duo is just the beginning, expect more HBM GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA in 2016-2017.

Specifications of both Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 chips are leaking for a while now. The latest ones are quite juicy so do give them a look. The more surprising bit about the Capsaicin 2016 event was that the Polaris GPU wasn't going to use HBM2, the latest update to the HBM2 roadmap. AMD sighted the price of HBM2 DRAM chips as the issue right now. That's where Vega comes in.