New AMD Navi Linux code confirms the GCN design of the new GPUs
AMD has already started dropping Navi driver code out into the wider Linux ecosystem, with a few key code drops in place right now and full driver enablement for the new graphics architecture likely to drop soon. These first little bits of Linux code don’t really tell us a whole lot about the new graphics cards, but do at least seem to nix all the recent rumours about Navi being built on a different design to the current Graphics Core Next setup. So yeah, Navi looks set to be GCN.
There had been earlier rumours that Navi would be the first post-GCN GPU design, and that would allow it to break past the 4,096 core limit supposedly imposed by the current macro-architecture, but it seems Navi is following the same overall path as previous GCN designs.
AMD’s GPU roadmap has the architecture after Navi noted down as ‘Next-Gen’ rather than having a specific codename, which could indicate that is where team Radeon has decided to move away from the aging Graphics Core Next setup.
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