A picture of a new chip has surfaced on social media, which looks as though it could be a design for a new dual-GPU AMD Radeon graphics card. The image is unlike any recent AMD chip, with two identically-sized chiplets sitting side by side, but no I/O chip, which you would expect on a CPU, and no small Infinity Cache chips, which you would expect on a GPU.
The AMD RDNA 4 release is now set for 2025, but this new lineup of GPUs was expected to be monolithic, meaning the GPU is all based on one chip, rather than multiple chiplets. However, AMD certainly has the technology to make chip packages containing more than one GPU, as it’s demonstrated with its CDNA 2 data center chip tech. What’s more, AMD recently announced that it’s now unifying RDNA and CDNA, so its gaming and data center chips will use the same core architecture. If AMD could build a new Radeon GPU with this tech, it could possibly make the best graphics card ever.
Is there a new dual-GPU Radeon in the works? That’s impossible to say right now, but let’s take a look at the source of this image (shown below) that’s doing the rounds. As far as I can tell, it was first posted by an X (formerly Twitter) user called Ayxerious, with just one word; “interesting.” It’s not a desktop CPU, and it also looks very different from the AMD Strix Halo diagrams we’ve seen so far, which have a large GPU chiplet and smaller CPU chiplets.
It’s since been shared on the Chiphell forums, where it’s being discussed as a potential picture of the forthcoming AMD Navi48 GPU. This chip is expected to have 56 compute units – that’s not a design I’d expect to be split over two chiplets, unless AMD has specifically designed RDNA 4 to be based on adding extra identical chiplets in order to scale upward.
That’s not out of the question, AMD does this with its CPUs after all, but no one was expecting to see it with RDNA 4. In fact, the rumor was that AMD was working on a multiple-chiplet design for what could have been the Radeon RX 8900 XTX, but then canceled it.
Either way, Ayxerious doesn’t appear to be happy about this speculation, with a follow-up post responding to tech leaker HXL sharing the Chiphell discussion, saying, “I’m the one who posted it here first. And some idiot reposted it on chiphell and now it’s a premiere leak. Bro…” Let’s face it, this picture could also easily be a fake, but it does appear to have captured people’s imaginations.
I’m still not expecting RDNA 4 Radeon RX 8000 graphics cards to have multiple GPU chiplets in one package, but AMD could definitely make such a product in the future, and that could perhaps be what this picture shows. Making a scalable GPU chiplet architecture makes sense from an economics point of view, as you can just use the same chip over again in different cards, but just put more of them in the package as the power (and price) increases.
AMD has also come a long way since the flaky days of CrossFire, and if it were to produce a multi-chiplet GPU, I’d expect Windows to see it as one chip, with the chiplets connected by a very high-speed interconnect. This is all pure speculation at this point, though, about a chip picture that may well be the result of someone having a play at our expense in Photoshop.
AMD isn’t the only company expected to unveil new GPUs in 2025 either. If you want to see what could be in store from the competition, check out our Nvidia RTX 5000 guide, where we take you through everything we know about the new GPUs so far.
