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

[phoronix]

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...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Navi-Continues-In-LLVM

[Termy]

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

[TazKhaelyor]

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...

[schmidtbag]

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.

[andrei_me]

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

[valici]

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.

[andrei_me]

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

[FireBurn]

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

[StandaSK]

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.

[ms178]

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.