Mini News: AMD reveal codename for the post 2020 Next Generation GPU Architecture

[Master Disaster]

Let's start off my making it clear, it's only a name, there's NO solid information.

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It looks like an AMD employee has revealed the name of AMD’s next-generation GPU which would be known as Arcturus. The next-gen GPU was revealed by an AMD employee on Phoronix Forums and aside from the GPU name, he also mentioned that the new lineup of graphics cards would go back to the older naming scheme which we got before Vega.

The current roadmap goes until 2019 & Navi, beyond that it just shows "Next Gen"

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If we go by the current AMD GPU roadmaps, we will see that AMD has products planned out till and beyond 2020. The 14nm Vega lineup shipped in 2017 and they are expected to ship their 1st 7nm based Vega 20 products by the end of this year. Then in 2019, we will get to see the first Navi products released to the consumer market.

 

The roadmap has GPU codenames confirmed till “Navi” and everything beyond that is labeled “Next-Gen”. The only details that are known about this next-gen part till now are that it will utilize the latest 7nm+ process node. Well, thanks to AMD themselves, we might have the first graphics architecture codename for this part which is said to be Arcturus.

The name continues the Space theme they've used as codenames since Polaris.

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The “Arcturus” codename comes from the red giant star which is the brightest in the constellation of Bootes and among the brightest stars that can be seen from space. Similar to Vega and Navi, both of which are also some of the brightest stars visible in the night sky, the naming scheme takes inspiration from the time since RTG was created and the founding father, Raja Koduri (ex AMD RTG President), put a lot of emphasis on bright stars when they first introduced Polaris.

https://wccftech.com/amd-arcturus-7nm-next-gen-gpu-revealed/

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Radeon-Arcturus

 

Like I said, mini news. Nothing of note but it at least shows the next gen cards are progressing.

[Humbug]

Lol, i am on the phoronix forums.

 

John Bridgman (amd driver dude) dropped the name. Then quickly edited it out of his post.

 

But then he realized that in that time it had already been screenshotted, spawned youtube videos, articles on dozen websites, and reddit threads etc. So then he thought 'oh well what the hell', and restored his post lol.

[Master Disaster]

25 minutes ago, Humbug said:

Lol, i am on the phoronix forums.

 

John Bridgman (amd driver dude) dropped the name. Then quickly edited it out of his post.

 

But then he realized that in that time it had already been screenshotted, spawned youtube videos, articles on dozen websites, and reddit threads etc. So then he thought 'oh well what the hell', and restored his post lol.

I always find it funny these large corporations get so secretive over codenames. I understand if it's a secret product but in this case everyone already knew its coming so why keep the codename a secret?

 

What's the worst that can happen by revealing a codename?

[Agosto]

Hoping for a Regulus architecture, someday

[Princess Luna]

44 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

What's the worst that can happen by revealing a codename?

Counter-Marketing?

 

You know the whole Coke Zero vs Pepsi One deal again.

[MMKing]

44 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I always find it funny these large corporations get so secretive over codenames. I understand if it's a secret product but in this case everyone already knew its coming so why keep the codename a secret?

 

What's the worst that can happen by revealing a codename?

It's more about maintaining a company culture. You can't have employees dropping every single arbitrary code name the company makes up. Doing so would dilute the code names that went anywhere. Imagine if the tech press wrote about 10 different code names leading up to ''Ryzen''. When ''Ryzen'' actually dropped, all the impact would be gone.

[CTR640]

2020...? :'( nVidia will be asking $899 for GT3030.

[TetraSky]

Waiting for Zen 2 and Navi before finally buying a new PC... For an all 7nm PC.

Then when they are released "waiting for Zen 3 and Arcturus before finally buying a new PC... Going ham on next gen 7nm"...

I need to stop waiting for the next big thing and just upgrade already... But it's most likely less than 6 months away from now, so may as well keep on waiting... Not like there was a game(that I care about) I truly couldn't even run yet.

[Trixanity]

1 hour ago, MMKing said:

It's more about maintaining a company culture. You can't have employees dropping every single arbitrary code name the company makes up. Doing so would dilute the code names that went anywhere. Imagine if the tech press wrote about 10 different code names leading up to ''Ryzen''. When ''Ryzen'' actually dropped, all the impact would be gone.

Funny you should say that. The code names got leaked far in advance.

 

Code names mean little in the grand scheme of things. What does this one tell us? Absolutely nothing. 

At best the continuation of the star names would almost hint that we're not done with GCN yet which would be terrible for everyone.

[RyomaSJibenG]

 

 

 

sorry i can't help it

[Guest]

Nah they got it from Starcraft 2 come on guys

[Sakkura]

1 hour ago, RorzNZ said:

Nah they got it from Starcraft 2 come on guys

I think Ancient Greek astronomy got there first.

[JuNex03]

1 hour ago, RyomaSJibenG said:

 

 

 

sorry i can't help it

"Fuck you Mengsk!"

        - Jim Raynor (probably)

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

I think Ancient Greek astronomy got there first.

They took it from Starcraft as well.

[bartekowca666]

3 hours ago, CTR640 said:

2020...? :'( nVidia will be asking $899 for GT3030.

With 3,5 GB of DDR2 memory.

[Sakkura]

1 hour ago, RorzNZ said:

They took it from Starcraft as well.

Oh, was that when Spock invented it a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away?

[RejZoR]

25 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Oh, was that when Spock invented it a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away?

No, it was actually Lieutenant Commander Data from Deus Ex.

[Master Disaster]

6 hours ago, Trixanity said:

Funny you should say that. The code names got leaked far in advance.

 

Code names mean little in the grand scheme of things. What does this one tell us? Absolutely nothing. 

At best the continuation of the star names would almost hint that we're not done with GCN yet which would be terrible for everyone.

Afair AMD have already confirmed Navi is the end of GCN and Arcturus will be an entirely new architecture.

 

8 hours ago, MMKing said:

It's more about maintaining a company culture. You can't have employees dropping every single arbitrary code name the company makes up. Doing so would dilute the code names that went anywhere. Imagine if the tech press wrote about 10 different code names leading up to ''Ryzen''. When ''Ryzen'' actually dropped, all the impact would be gone.

I wasn't suggesting they do that however whats the harm in telling us a firm codename for a product we already know is coming?

 

8 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Counter-Marketing?

 

You know the whole Coke Zero vs Pepsi One deal again.

Yeah I can see that but these are codenames, not product names.

[Trixanity]

41 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Afair AMD have already confirmed Navi is the end of GCN and Arcturus will be an entirely new architecture.

I know. That's what we've been told. However, usually the code names change when the product family changes.

 

Either way my point was how unimportant code names are and that we've known the Zen name since like 2015.

[Master Disaster]

Just now, Trixanity said:

I know. That's what we've been told. However, usually the code names change when the product family changes.

 

Either way my point was how unimportant code names are and that we've known the Zen name since like 2015.

Yep, that's how I feel as well. Like I said I totally get it if it's a secret product and revealing the codename would also reveal the products existence but when the public already knows the product is coming who the hell cares?

[Guest]

3 hours ago, RejZoR said:

No, it was actually Lieutenant Commander Data from Deus Ex.

If I recall Doom Guy picked up a PDA containing an email with a large black box containing A Space Odyssey (2001). The box is full of stars.

[mr moose]

10 hours ago, MMKing said:

Imagine if the tech press wrote about 10 different code names leading up to ''Ryzen''. When ''Ryzen'' actually dropped, all the impact would be gone.

We don't have to imagine, we have WCCFtech for that.

[TVwazhere]

13 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Waiting for Zen 2 and Navi before finally buying a new PC... For an all 7nm PC.

Then when they are released "waiting for Zen 3 and Arcturus before finally buying a new PC... Going ham on next gen 7nm"...

I need to stop waiting for the next big thing and just upgrade already... But it's most likely less than 6 months away from now, so may as well keep on waiting... Not like there was a game(that I care about) I truly couldn't even run yet.

I mean it cant be that ba-

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CPU: Intel Core i7 875k / GPU: Radeon HD7970 GHz 3GB 

Damn. 

 

Well as long as you dont NEED it yet. 

[Levent]

12 hours ago, RyomaSJibenG said:

 

 

 

sorry i can't help it

Thats exactly what came to my mind, I wish they chose the SC character names.

[ZestyJalapeno]

Why can't they just call it "The Sun". Like the yeah my GPU is called the Sun. Oh wait that was the codename for Fermi