By 2025, AMD anticipates GPUs with TDPs of up to 700W

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Sam Naffziger, senior vice president, corporate fellow, and architect of product technology at AMD, recently participated in a detailed interview with VentureBeat. It's interesting to note that AMD anticipates the development of high-performance GPUs with TDPs as high as 700W prior to 2025. Naffziger, who specialises in cutting-edge efficiency technology and has the 25x20 project's success under his belt, is currently putting a lot of effort into the 30x25 efficiency project.

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Since 2017, Naffziger, who has spent 16 years with AMD, has been a part of the graphics unit. He discussed how improvements to the RDNA architecture and the development of the CDNA architecture for the data centre work hand in hand to increase the efficiency of Radeon GPUs.

Making GPUs more efficient is particularly covered in the interview but not the preceding chart. Due to the lack of context, we interpret the chart as an indication of AMD's warning to the industry rather than as a forecast of the future trajectory of AMD GPUs. Naffziger describes various creative strategies AMD has used to prevent rising GPU TDPs, and based on the interview, it appears AMD still has some cunning plans for RDNA 3 and RDNA 4.

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"We're not going to let our momentum halt at all in the efficiency gains," says Naffziger of RDNA 3. This indicates that AMD wants to enhance performance per watt by 50%. AMD will keep using its expertise in CPUs to maximise the performance of its GPUs, including chiplet designs. Later this year, RDNA 3 GPUs will use 5nm chiplets. Naffziger observes that whereas Nvidia has yet to demonstrate a jump, Intel is already a major player in chiplets With GPUs, as demonstrated by Ponte Vecchio. The AMD employee continued, "Our competitors either have good CPUs or good GPUs, but nobody has both, at least not yet." while discussing rivals.