As we reported here, AMD is undergoing some major changes. Firstly, we learned that the company will not be looking to compete with NVIDIA in the high-end sector with its next generation of graphics cards. Secondly, we learned that the company was planning to unify its GPU architectures, which would require fewer resources on the corporate side. This would take the form of UDNA, an architecture that will see the light of day after RDNA 4. So the Reds are cancelling RDNA 5!
UDNA instead of RDNA 5!
The Reds currently have two architectures for graphics: RDNA for the consumer market and CDNA for the professional market. Unfortunately, these two architectures work differently, which means that the Reds have to spend a lot of resources optimising one or the other. In other words, the company has teams working on one product group and another on the other. In short, it’s not very efficient, and the optimisations made on one side are not necessarily supported on the other, and vice versa – a real mess.
By unifying its architectures, the company should only have one team working on the same group of products. In this way, the optimisations made would benefit all the cards, and we would see an approach similar to NVIDIA’s Cuda.
The latest news is that UDNA is due to be released somewhere in the second quarter of 2026 and will replace RDNA 5. RDNA 4, AMD’s next series of cards, should therefore be the last to adopt this separate operating mode. At the same time, we can understand AMD’s desire to give up the high-end/Enthusiast sector for a while. Perhaps we’ll see the company competing with NVIDIA in this sector in 2026?
