During its Financial Analyst Day presentation, AMD revealed a bit more details regarding its future GPU plans, including the shift to 14nm/16nm FinFET manufacturing process which is coming in 2016.

According to released slides, AMD will focus on DirectX 12, 4K/UHD resolution and VR in this year by brining industry-first technologies, referring to the High Bandwidth Memory which will be implemented on the upcoming Fiji GPU-based Radeon R9 390X graphics card. AMD is also putting special focus on Virtual Reality (VR) gaming and we will surely see more about it as soon as Oculus finally releases its consumer version of the Rift VR headset.

When it comes to 2016, AMD puts a lot of faith in 14nm/16nm FinFET manufacturing process for its GPUs. While AMD did not specify if it will use 16nm TSMC FinFET or Global Foundries 14nm FinFET manufacturing process, it still notes that we will see up to 2x (100 percent) gain in performance per watt compared to current generation of GPUs.

AMD is apparently already testing FinFET based chips and its next-gen GPU, codename Greenland, will not only focus on FinFET manufacturing process, but also use 2nd generation High Bandwidth Memory, which should bring significant improvements as well. AMD's next-generation Zen CPU architecture will be also based on FinFET manufacturing process as well.

AMD puts a lot of faith in FinFET manufacturing process, especially its scalability as it will cover AMD's entire product lineup, from APUs, CPUs to GPUs.









Source: AMD.com.