AMD Sends Out Initial Open-Source Linux Graphics Support For "Picasso" APUs

[Jumbotron]

Perhaps as Bristol Ridge was to Carrizo, Picasso is to Raven Ridge.

[GunpowaderGuy]

TemplarGR bandwith usage doesn't scale linearly with power because of cache memory

[Brophen]

Am I the only one who wishes there was a HEDT APU? When I think of an APU I don't just assume "poor man's desktop", I think HSA and "the closer the GPU and CPU are, the better". FrameRipper , anyone?

[davidbepo]

I am not sure, but doesn't that mean a different wiring? hence.. a different socket, aka no more until year 2020 - AM4 compatible?
Perhaps there could be improvements in the DCC/Caching that could be leveraged with the additional transistors/silicon footprint.

quad channel will indeed require a new socket, but a hbm or edram cache could be done on the same socket , i7-5775C is a proof of this

[rene]

Awesome, great fan of the Mesa drivers. One thing I was missing last time I tried to switch my screen capturing to AMD was hardware accelerated video encoding, usually via libva. Last time I asked the developers they said something like "VA API does not match the AMD hardware so much", should try opnemax or so. Wondering did this change so that I can use ffmpeg hardware accelerated video encoding with the latest AMD GPUs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_e16kOurJE

[xxmitsu]

With 7nm and assuming at least a 1.5x increase in theoretical performance, the memory bandwidth needs will be even bigger. HBM3 perhaps? Quad channel ddr4? Something else?

I am not sure, but doesn't that mean a different wiring? hence.. a different socket, aka no more until year 2020 - AM4 compatible?
Perhaps there could be improvements in the DCC/Caching that could be leveraged with the additional transistors/silicon footprint.

[M@GOid]

*crossing fingers

"Six core, six core, six core."

[TemplarGR]

A boring APU. I suppose just a die shrink of Raven to 12nm. The really cool stuff will arrive a year later with 7nm... I wonder if by then AMD will have solved the memory bandwidth problem. Raven is already severely bandwidth limited. It is a shame to have a 1.8 teraflop igpu with dual ddr4 bandwidth, while it needs at least double that. With 7nm and assuming at least a 1.5x increase in theoretical performance, the memory bandwidth needs will be even bigger. HBM3 perhaps? Quad channel ddr4? Something else?

[xxmitsu]

And.. also Raven2: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...er/026639.html

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Sends Out Initial Open-Source Linux Graphics Support For "Picasso" APUs

Adding to the exciting week for AMD open-source Linux graphics is that in addition to the long-awaited patch update for FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync/VRR, patches for the Linux kernel were sent out prepping the graphics upbringing for the unreleased "Picasso" APUs...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Picasso-AMDGPU-Patches