AMD Reveals Latest Plans For Open-Source openSIL With Replacing AGESA, Zen 6 Milestone

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Reveals Latest Plans For Open-Source openSIL With Replacing AGESA, Zen 6 Milestone

Last year to much excitement in our community was the new AMD project announcement of openSIL as an open-source CPU silicon initialization project that is an advancement for open-source firmware and to eventually replace AMD's AGESA across both client and server processors. This week an exciting new update on AMD OpenSIL was shared and that they are still on-track for having it production-ready next year...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-September-2024

[peterdk]

Amazing!

[caligula]

Nice!

[gustavoar]

Awesome, my only concern with this is that if they introduce it in desktop Zen 6, it will mean that Zen 5 is that last AM5 generation. This would make me angry since I got a Zen 4 and was planning to upgrade to Zen 6 once it comes out, giving that Zen 5 is underwhelming for games.

[Luke_Wolf]

Awesome, my only concern with this is that if they introduce it in desktop Zen 6, it will mean that Zen 5 is that last AM5 generation. This would make me angry since I got a Zen 4 and was planning to upgrade to Zen 6 once it comes out, giving that Zen 5 is underwhelming for games.

Bruh... If you want better gaming performance upgrade your GPU not your CPU. You should only be upgrading your CPU about every 4-5 year because it's been diminishing marginal returns since the 00s outside of fresh redesigns though the generational improvements stack up over time to being worth it. Most games are GPU bound not CPU and your GPU actually does receive regular significant performance improvements. generationally.

[gustavoar]

Bruh... If you want better gaming performance upgrade your GPU not your CPU. You should only be upgrading your CPU about every 4-5 year because it's been diminishing marginal returns since the 00s outside of fresh redesigns though the generational improvements stack up over time to being worth it. Most games are GPU bound not CPU and your GPU actually does receive regular significant performance improvements. generationally.

If you look at recent benchmarks and analysis from various parties, you will find that CPUs are holding the high end GPU performance back in many cases recently. So it's a mix of both.

[torsionbar28]

Awesome, my only concern with this is that if they introduce it in desktop Zen 6, it will mean that Zen 5 is that last AM5 generation. This would make me angry since I got a Zen 4 and was planning to upgrade to Zen 6 once it comes out, giving that Zen 5 is underwhelming for games.

Meh, still gaming on Zen 3 over here, works great still no reason to upgrade. Unless you're doing 8k gaming on a 4090, your CPU is not holding you back.

[Gamer1227]

So, does that makes life easier for Libreboot devs? So that we can have librebooted laptops that are not 10 years old.

[JEBjames]

@Michael

typo

"ocntributions" should be "contributions"

[Luke_Wolf]

If you look at recent benchmarks and analysis from various parties, you will find that CPUs are holding the high end GPU performance back in many cases recently. So it's a mix of both.

Holding them back from playable or even good performance? No... No they're not. You can play everything just fine today on your Zen 4 CPU, as the owner of a 7950X and 7900 XTX I know... I do it, games that are actually heavy on the CPU like Star Citzen are getting in excess of 100FPS. Holding them back from getting 450FPS rather than 400 in situations where the GPU is the fast one? Sure but you don't benefit from that. You're just burning power by shooting out frames faster than a monitor can display them. Unless you're heavy into strategy or complex sim games you're probably not in a situation where CPU performance really matters. It's why the Playstation 4 got away with using literal wimpy netbook cores

That isn't to say that CPU performance is entirely irrelevant... for chasing high end games like Star Citizen and Cyberpunk you do need to upgrade every so often, but for a gamer chasing the CPU upgrade treadmill is the worst investment you can possibly make. If you're a content producer, a software developer or something it can make sense, but a gamer? lol no. If you're absolutely rolling in cash fine go ahead and keep up to date on the latest and greatest but if you aren't then run the GPU upgrade treadmill instead and leave full rebuilds to a 4-5 year cycle.