AMD’s new chiplet GPU patent could finally do for graphics cards what Ryzen did for its CPUs-
A little over a week ago, an AMD patent titled Distributed Geometry was published by the US Patent Office, the patent itself was filed by AMD in April this year. The patent details a fully chiplet approach to GPUs, where the rendering workload is distributed across a collection of chips, rather than having one massive die handling all of the processing. There’s no indication that we’ll see this employed in a Radeon graphics card any time soon, of course, but it’s the natural evolution of what we’ve already seen in RDNA 3.
I picked up news of the patent from YouTube channel RedGamingTech and it’s a fascinating read. Although the document is titled ‘Distributed Geometry’, it’s really about distributed rendering. Take AMD’s current Navi 31 GPU, its largest graphics processor as used …
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