AMD Arcturus Might Be The Codename Succeeding Navi

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Arcturus Might Be The Codename Succeeding Navi

While it will be a ways from release, the codename to the successor of the AMD Radeon "Navi" GPUs might be Arcturus...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...adeon-Arcturus

[ElectricPrism]

Cool.

I can't help but think of Arcturus StarCraft 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL5FM4OPPlE&t=53s

[Ungweliante]

Michael, Arcturus is Alpha of Bootes : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus

[Aiua]

Michael, Arcturus is Alpha of Bootes : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus

Well it's already in the article: "Arcturus is a large red star and the brightest of the constellation of Boötes. "

[Ungweliante]

Thx Aiua, I'll go to sleep, it is too late

[johanb]

Bridgman edited his post to remove it, but you guys were fast enough to notice it.

[tildearrow]

Bridgman edited his post to remove it, but you guys were fast enough to notice it.

Which post?

[dungeon]

Oh, no Sirius Sam yet

But yeah i guess they should keep brightest star name for the one if they plan to really kill nVidia

[bridgman]

We are picking randomly within a category (bright stars) so that the name doesn't convey too much information about the product.

Before Polaris/Vega the internal code names were unrelated to the eventual marketing names - we're trying to get back to that for open source driver code to make pre-launch upstreaming easier.

[mibo]

Michael has to thank you for the additional traffic :-)