Last August, AMD confirmed that it was temporarily abandoning the gaming segment. high-end graphics for the domestic market, a logical decision given the latest financial results corresponding to this division. A month later, the company announced that it would follow the same path as Nvidia defraud CUDA and would unify the architectures ADNR (Radeon) for desktop graphics and DNAC (Instinct) for single-name server GPUs UDNA.
In this way, developers can create applications optimized for both home graphics and those used in data centers, the same thing that NVIDIA has been doing for several years and which has allowed it to become the undisputed king of the graphics segment in both cases. fields.
AMD’s first UDNA GPUs for 2026
This new architecture will represent the best of the Instinct and Radeon ranges and will mark a new departure for AMD’s GPU division, which is experiencing economic results as mediocre as we mentioned at the beginning of this article. At the moment, all known information regarding AMD’s next actions are just rumors and assumptions.
It is expected that the architectures DNAC 4 Yes ARND 4 They are the last of each, before sharing the same nomenclature. The new architecture, UDNA, will be divided into two segments, one focused on AI training and the other focused on the domestic market, which could mark AMD’s return to the high-end graphics segment for users the most demanding.
Speculation aside, the latest information regarding AMD’s new architecture comes from a Chiphell user who has previously posted information regarding the Ryzen 7 9800X3D
According to this user, the series AMD Instinct MI400 (we are currently in the Instinct MI300) and the series Radeon RX9000 (we are waiting for the launch of Radeon RX8000 scheduled for CES 2025), will use the UDNA architecture. Concerning the Radeon RX 9000, its entry into production is planned for the second quarter of 2026, its launch could therefore take place before the end of the same year or at CES in 2027.
The PS6 will use the UDNA architecture
The next generation of sony consolethe PS6, with the change in AMD architecture, will also benefit from the improvements associated with the unification, leaving aside the hybrid design that combines RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 of the current generation, therefore it will have lower energy consumption and best AI features. and improved ray tracing.
Regarding the CPU, we do not yet know if it will use Zen 4 or Zen 5, but the most likely, and logical on the other hand, is that it will use Zen 5 to get the most out of AMD hardware. It won’t be until 2028, at the earliest, that the PS6 will hit the market. According to this leaker, the information comes from a source in the supply chain, so he is completely unaware of what the possible specifications are.
