AMD releases the 7-nm Pro W5700

  The evolution of graphics processors has profoundly changed over the last 20 years. The first specialized graphics architectures were almost purely fixed-function and could only accelerate a very limited range of computation such as geometry or lighting transformations. Programmable shaders gave developers new levels of capabilities, but with allocated functionality. Unified shaders offered dynamic load balancing and advanced branching. Yet until recently, the GPU still had restricted and fixed pipelines, until recently. New APIs like Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX 12 support a more programmable interleaved vector compute model and introduced asynchronous computing, enabling traditional graphics and general-compute to work