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AMD Navi spotted in MacOS Mojave
it took a bit of seeking, but entries of AMDs next-gen Navi has surfaced in the Mojave MacOS version 14.2 as website Tonymacx86 spotted. As mentioned it took a bit of seeking, as the entries are located in actual programming code.
A file that is called AMDRadeon6000HWServiceskext has "Navi" listed in several segments of the code. Not just that, four models have been spotted: Navi 16, Navi 12, Navi 10 and Navi 9. The number could be related to the number of computeunits.
If AMD continues to use 64 shaders per compute unit in Navi, it means that the smallest discrete Navi GPU has been limited to 576 shader units in an aim to replace the Radeon RX 540, the Radeon RX 550, the Radeon RX 560 and all related mobile GPUs. Navi 16 would get 1024 Shader processors. Videocardz mentions these are likely names for different products, not the names of the GPUs. The device ID for NAVi was listed as 0x73101002.
If added to the code, logic assumes a lucnh is pending this year similar to when Apple added Vega's code to MacOS Sierra, after which Vega was launched I think it was six months later. So who knows, Navi within six months?
AMD NAVI would see three video card models, $249 RX 3080 close to RTX 2070 - 12/06/2018 10:11 AM
Quite a bit of information leaked onto the web over the last day or so, whether or not that information is correct remains to be seen. However, more info surfaced and it entails the pending GPU launch...
AMD Navi based Graphics cards Might Arrive in August 2018 - 10/09/2017 02:10 PM
While Vega is barely out of the doors, AMD is already moving forward to NAVI. Graphics cards based on these 7nm fabbed GPUs would be released in August 2018 according to new information. ...
carnivore
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#5629929 Posted on: 01/21/2019 05:13 PM
Good if it's true. nVidia should taste it's own medicine for blocking it's own drivers in systems with AMD drivers way back.
Good if it's true. nVidia should taste it's own medicine for blocking it's own drivers in systems with AMD drivers way back.
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#5629933 Posted on: 01/21/2019 05:21 PM
Oh sure, let's forget all about how and why nvidia are, these days, stonewalled by Apple completely. Surely it has nothing to do with their past working history.
Let's also forget how, for a time, nvidia was the only addon graphics option for Apple. I wonder why that ended?
At any rate, if you install Windows on their hardware you're free to drop in an nvidia card and it will work, but if you are running the OS on a non-Apple hardware (hackintosh,) you're actually in breach of the end-user license agreement.
Bottom line is, it's Apple's platform; what they choose to support is up to them, not anyone else. It's a niche platform that's basically just a standard PC branded and coupled with a custom OS, so what exactly is the argument here?
Likely to be the only addin graphics card for the foreseeable future as Apple are engaging in anti-competitive practices and refusing to permit nvidia drivers to function.
Oh sure, let's forget all about how and why nvidia are, these days, stonewalled by Apple completely. Surely it has nothing to do with their past working history.
Let's also forget how, for a time, nvidia was the only addon graphics option for Apple. I wonder why that ended?
At any rate, if you install Windows on their hardware you're free to drop in an nvidia card and it will work, but if you are running the OS on a non-Apple hardware (hackintosh,) you're actually in breach of the end-user license agreement.
Bottom line is, it's Apple's platform; what they choose to support is up to them, not anyone else. It's a niche platform that's basically just a standard PC branded and coupled with a custom OS, so what exactly is the argument here?
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#5629936 Posted on: 01/21/2019 05:26 PM
I sure hope so and AMD releases Navy soon as we definitely need more competition on the video card side of things for a healthy and competitive market.
I sure hope so and AMD releases Navy soon as we definitely need more competition on the video card side of things for a healthy and competitive market.
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#5629942 Posted on: 01/21/2019 05:34 PM
Useless on macOS where OpenGL and OpenCL are pretty much dead. No one cares about Metal, and Apple is stubborn about Vulkan.
Useless on macOS where OpenGL and OpenCL are pretty much dead. No one cares about Metal, and Apple is stubborn about Vulkan.
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Likely to be the only addin graphics card for the foreseeable future as Apple are engaging in anti-competitive practices and refusing to permit nvidia drivers to function.