The Anticipated Linux Driver Requirements For The Radeon Instinct MI50 / MI60 (Vega 20)

[Buntolo]

For the MI50/MI60? Probably very unlikely... I haven't received any AMD professional cards since before the GCN days, 2011. Nor have I been briefed on RX 590 - I assume they did some briefing/sampling during the AMD event this week after hours.

Can you find an agreement with other IT news sites to share one between you for review purposes? Like you look for, say, other 10 sites and ask alltogether AMD a sample for you all as a group.

[Michael]

Can you find an agreement with other IT news sites to share one between you for review purposes? Like you look for, say, other 10 sites and ask alltogether AMD a sample for you all as a group.

Are you talking about for MI60 or RX 590? I don't personally know many of the other people, but really isn't worthwhile anyways bending over backwards and wasting the time trying to figure out alternatives if AMD doesn't want to send one out... Their loss - not a lot of Linux benchmarks then, don't know how they aren't aware of my many and routine Linux benchmarks beyond the initial review of driver/kernel updates, other comparisons, etc.

As far as RX 590, if they aren't sampling me, I'll end up buying one when it becomes available... Obviously for Radeon Instinct that isn't an option.

[microcode]

Looks like it has a Mini-DisplayPort to me. Wonder if somebody will fiddle about a bit and get Mesa running on it. ;- )

[dungeon]

Are you talking about for MI60 or RX 590? I don't personally know many of the other people, but really isn't worthwhile anyways bending over backwards and wasting the time trying to figure out alternatives if AMD doesn't want to send one out... Their loss - not a lot of Linux benchmarks then, don't know how they aren't aware of my many and routine Linux benchmarks beyond the initial review of driver/kernel updates, other comparisons, etc.

As far as RX 590, if they aren't sampling me, I'll end up buying one when it becomes available... Obviously for Radeon Instinct that isn't an option.

Maybe you can write article on to Why Microsoft Constantly Breaks AMD Drivers on Linux? Microsoft behaves like he is an gold digger in the wild west saloon, harrasment free my ass

That AMDGPU power issue with 4.18 was done by MS dev and someone told me how another MS dev breaks many third party drivers including FGLRX on same 4.18 kernel... but that was during merging somewhere, didn't inspected that yet

No mention of Windows-support. Looks like the card will be Linux-exclusive.

Maybe MS Linux is new Windows, as we now have MS inside breaking things around harassment free

Maybe Microsoft will buy let say Canonical, so it does not matter... Merry Christmas

[duby229]

I'm excited to see some benches of these class cards. It's about due time for me to get a new card and am interested in see a sort of a "generation by generation" cross comparison.

[duby229]

Card mostly used for computing and AI runs only on the OS that is most commonly used for computing and AI, more news at 20:00.

A well, that makes sense then. I am more interested in a new gaming card and so I guess this class won't be it.

[Brisse]

Maybe MS Linux is new Windows, as we now have MS inside breaking things around harassment free

Maybe Microsoft will buy let say Canonical, so it does not matter... Merry Christmas

I get that you are just joking around, but trust me, this is going to happen.

Edit: Forgot to use emojis:

[dungeon]

I get that you are just joking around, but trust me, this is going to happen.

Edit: Forgot to use emojis

Ha, ha, i am not joking i am laughing

MS bought Github this year, they also take i think 6 games developer studios just to make more XBOne exclusives and whatever else... so they could buy Canonical even without noticing it

Same way they break linux code without noticing it, so Merry Christmas

[duby229]

Ha, ha, i am not joking i am laughing

MS bought Github this year, they also take i think 6 games developer studios just to make more XBOne exclusives and whatever else... so they could buy Canonical even without noticing it

Same way they break linux code without noticing it, so Merry Christmas

Well, we already know MS has no chance to buy RedHat...... So, good news.....

[DrYak]

Looks like it has a Mini-DisplayPort to me. Wonder if somebody will fiddle about a bit and get Mesa running on it. ;- )

I know that deep neural nets are the latest craze that gets all the attention (and I say that, working in an environment were most are doing data analysis), but there are people using clusters to *render* stuff. It's very likely that this card will run Mesa and specially vulkan.

Also some dev will eventually have a single unit plugged into their workstation to test and develop code before deploying on the cluster. Might as well use it to display stuff (like the editor) on the screen.

Both above together mean, that yes, you'll actually be able to play games. Though for that use, the extremely large memory might be a bit of over-kill, specially given the high price tag attached to it.