AMD Releases New "AMDGPU" Linux Kernel Driver & Mesa Support

[drSeehas]

Opensource graphic driver developers use these naming for the families (SI, CI(K), VI, PI), manuals uses Gens you are talking about and marketing uses all different naming, that is what confuse people the most

That said if you are interested in driver development you should use SI, CIK, VI, PI, if you read a manuals use Gen and if you want to buy/sell something use marketing names

Also AMD might use internally completely different naming too, as Bridgman mentioned. That means if you work at AMD you can use that.

And none of all these names are "GCN 1.0, GCN 1.1, GCN 1.2, GCN 1.3"!
I repeat my question: Why "invent" another one?
Because there is a shortage of names?
Or is it cool to not use one of the already existing names?

[duby229]

As far as I understand it currently Catalyst hasn't been released with amdgpu support yet, so it's not possible to test yet.

Plus, I kinda want to wait for Carrizo.

[dungeon]

Why use 3 different names for the same thing?
Just to confuse people?

Just stick to the official names and don't invent 3rd ones, please!

Opensource graphic driver developers use these naming for the families (SI, CI(K), VI, PI), manuals uses Gens you are talking about and marketing uses all different naming, that is what confuse people the most

That said if you are interested in driver development you should use SI, CIK, VI, PI, if you read a manuals use Gen and if you want to buy/sell something use marketing names

Also AMD might use internally completely different naming too, as Bridgman mentioned. That means if you work at AMD you can use that.

[dungeon]

Well, As of right now I plan to buy a new APU and a new GPU. Both of them will definitely be amdgpu supported. I just have to wait for hardware to become available. At the point when I'm able to reevaluate Catalyst I'll make a new opinion of it then.

Why to wait? Let say you build something like this:

iGPU from that APU currently works with all 3 drivers (fglrx, radeon and amdgpu) and dGPU with 2 of them (fglrx and amdgpu)

[drSeehas]

What is the difference? You can call it GCN 1.0, GCN 1.1, GCN 1.2, GCN 1.3 or Gen 1, 2, 3, 4 or SI, CIK, VI, PI ...

Why use different names for the same thing?
Just to confuse people?

Just stick to the official names and don't "invent" another one, please!

[duby229]

Well, As of right now I plan to buy a new APU and a new GPU. Both of them will definitely be amdgpu supported. I just have to wait for hardware to become available. At the point when I'm able to reevaluate Catalyst I'll make a new opinion of it then.

[dungeon]

The new hardware is called officially "GCN Generation 3".

What is the difference? You can call it GCN 1.0, GCN 1.1, GCN 1.2, GCN 1.3 or Gen 1, 2, 3, 4 or SI, CIK, VI, PI

And you can call Carrizo-L as Kabini, because core is actually Jaguar++ or Puma with one plus

[drSeehas]

... The new HW is called GCN 1.2 and above. ...

The new hardware is called officially "GCN Generation 3".

[dungeon]

it is false. android is used more than everything else combined

Yeah but point is - when most people are chinese, on average most people must be chinese That can't be true .

[pal666]

Windows XP is probably still used more then OS_X, all Linux distributions and modern game consoles combined . It does not make sense, but that seems true.

it is false. android is used more than everything else combined