According to the latest report, AMD has allegedly taped out its new Arctic Islands Ellesmere and Baffin GPUs that will, next to high-end Greenland GPU, be the main GPUs for performance and mainstream segments of the market.

According to a report from Wccftech.com, AMD has taped out two new GPUs that will be a part of its upcoming Arctic Islands GPU lineup, the Ellesmere and Baffin GPUs. According to previous leaks, Ellesmere and Baffin, in addition to the Greenland GPU, will be three new GPUs in AMD's Arctic Islands lineup and be a part of AMD's upcoming Radeon 400 series, scheduled for next year.

While Greenland GPU will be AMD's high-end flagship GPU, Ellesmere and Baffin will cover the performance and mainstream part of the market, which suggest that we will see a similar strategy that AMD used with its first 28nm Southern Islands GPUs, where three GPUs made the HD 7900, HD 7800 and HD 7700 series.

Earlier this week and during its financial call, AMD hinted that it plans to update its entire graphics card lineup in "the coming quarters" with new GPUs that will offer "2X the performance per watt," compared to the current GPU lineup.

AMD is apparently only waiting for the FinFET manufacturing process volume production to start next year as the GPUs are ready.

AMD's upcoming Arctic Islands GPUs will bring plenty of new improvements, including 2nd generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2), which will bring 8Gb per DRAM die with 4/8 Hi-Stack (4GB/8GB), new improvements with next Graphics Core Next architecture as well as improvements coming from the more advanced 14/16nm FinFET manufacturing process.



Source: Wccftech.com.