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    Phoronix: More AMD Radeon "Navi" Code Continues Landing In LLVM For Its Compiler Backend

    While we haven't yet spotted any of the other AMD Radeon "Navi" next-generation GPU support in the other software components making up AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver stack, there continues to be a lot of work happening on the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end within the mainline LLVM code-base. In fact, there's been over eleven thousand lines of new code so far pertaining to Navi/GFX10...

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  • #2
    lets hope they manage launchday support again
    if Navi holds up to the hopes (around RTX2060-2070) i'll surely pick one up

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Termy View Post
      lets hope they manage launchday support again
      if Navi holds up to the hopes (around RTX2060-2070) i'll surely pick one up
      I was very close to buying a RX580, but Navi's news on Phoronix helped me be a little more patient. If Navi is in that range (performance, price, ideally better effiency but that's wishfull thinking) I'll definitely buy one too ! Mostly because AMD's open-source driver support is something I want to support and see more of...

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      • #4
        It's nice to see Navi needs so much code specific to it. To me, that suggests it isn't just a small incremental upgrade.

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        • #5
          I'm hoping that Navi will be as significant to AMD as Polaris was, 2019~2020 will be a great time to upgrade desktop, laptop, workstation, everything AMD

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          • #6
            AMD has to move more graphics card in laptops. It is lacking there and it's a very big chunk of the market.
            That means it has to make cool and quiet but reasonably powerful chip.
            And also push for Laptop Manufacturers to use them.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by valici View Post
              AMD has to move more graphics card in laptops. It is lacking there and it's a very big chunk of the market.
              That means it has to make cool and quiet but reasonably powerful chip.
              And also push for Laptop Manufacturers to use them.
              THIS, 100% THIS

              I'm looking for a new laptop, but it is impossible to find one high-end AMD combo here in my country, I'll have to import it elsewhere, and the max that I can find is a Ryzen 3750H paired with Nvidia dGPU

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              • #8
                I'm looking for either an Intel or AMD CPU pared with a Navi GPU. I was disappointed that there weren't any Vega ones, that weren't just rebranded Polaris or APUs

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                • #9
                  Yeah, not counting the few desktop replacements (a.k.a. really fat laptops), the highest end GPU AMD has in laptops is the RX 560X - a GTX 1050/1050Ti equivalent. Those, I would say, are surprisingly decent laptops though.
                  Hopefully Navi brings something more powerful.

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                  • #10
                    Indeed, more competition in the notebook market is badly needed. The dominance of Nvidia and Intel drove price levels way up during the last seven years. I hope that AMD's new chiplet approach helps them to bring prices down and a faster time to market. Currently they lack a year behind their desktop offerings.

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