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Motherboard manufacturers Release AM4 BIOS With Raven Ridge APU Support
While intended for mobile, it seems that the AMD Raven Ridge APUs will reach the desktop platform as well, as motherboard manufacturers are rolling out BIOS updates supporting Raven Ridge.
That means the APuwould work and fit in the existing AM4 socket. Raven Ridge is based on four Zen cores and 10 GPU shader clusters holding 64 streaming processors each. Matched up, that's close to a comparable quad-core Ryzen 5 processor but now with, let's say a Radeon RX 550 video card. The news reaches the web through planet3dnow who noticed the BIOS updates.
ASUS, for example, is currently distributing version 3203 ( direct link to the zip file ) for the ASUS Prime B350M-A, which brings with it "AGESA! V9 RavenPI-FP5-AM4 1.0.7.1" and support for Bristol Ridge, Summit Ridge and Raven Ridge. In addition, to support for the CPU part (ie AGESA), the respective video BIOS is included (BRISTOL AM4 Generic VBIOS and Raven Generic VBIOS). The fact that BIOS updates are already being distributed suggests that the Raven Ridge family's desktop representatives will soon be making a big start.
Due to the demand here is the list of motherboards for which a corresponding BIOS update is available:
- EX-A320M-GAMING is still missing
- PRIME X370-PRO
- PRIME X370-A
- PRIME B350-PLUS
- PRIME B350M-A
- PRIME B350M-E
- PRIME B350M-K
- PRIME A320M-A
- PRIME A320M-C is still missing
- PRIME A320M-C R2.0 is still missing
- PRIME A320M-E
- PRIME A320M-K
- ROG CROSSHAIR VI HERO is still missing
- ROG CROSSHAIR VI EXTREME is still missing
- ROG STRIX X370-F GAMING
- ROG STRIX X370-I GAMING
- ROG STRIX B350-F GAMING
- ROG STRIX B350-I GAMING
So far we have not been able to find updates for motherboards from other manufacturers with Raven Ridge support.
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#5496230 Posted on: 11/28/2017 08:39 PM
There's no information about that - at least I haven't seen any - but I doubt it.
Will these APUs work in mGPU config with a discrete video card?
There's no information about that - at least I haven't seen any - but I doubt it.
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#5496246 Posted on: 11/28/2017 09:24 PM
There is supposedly the ability to delegate in DirectX 12, but haven't heard anything since it was initially reported.
There is supposedly the ability to delegate in DirectX 12, but haven't heard anything since it was initially reported.
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#5496249 Posted on: 11/28/2017 09:34 PM
Nothing is automatically done by magic, it has to done by the application developer. Here is a sample demo: https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectX-Graphics-Samples/tree/master/Samples/Desktop/D3D12HeterogeneousMultiadapter
The same logic, though for different tasks, is used in AotS when you run the game with both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs on the same system.
There is supposedly the ability to delegate in DirectX 12, but haven't heard anything since it was initially reported.
Nothing is automatically done by magic, it has to done by the application developer. Here is a sample demo: https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectX-Graphics-Samples/tree/master/Samples/Desktop/D3D12HeterogeneousMultiadapter
The same logic, though for different tasks, is used in AotS when you run the game with both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs on the same system.
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#5496302 Posted on: 11/29/2017 12:25 AM
In the past they could be paired up with something similar, in this case it would be a RX460, but that depends on if they can allow Vega and Polaris architectures to work together which i doubt. Maybe they can reduce power draw in that when ideal or minor graphical work use the APU GPU while the external graphics card is idle to save power consumption
In the past they could be paired up with something similar, in this case it would be a RX460, but that depends on if they can allow Vega and Polaris architectures to work together which i doubt. Maybe they can reduce power draw in that when ideal or minor graphical work use the APU GPU while the external graphics card is idle to save power consumption
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#5496515 Posted on: 11/29/2017 05:52 PM
Why doubt it? To my knowledge, every APU worth buying (for the sake of the IGP) supported hybrid Crossfire. Considering how much AMD is pushing things like HSA and DX12/Vulkan, I would be surprised if they didn't support it. Whether or not it is worth doing may be a different story.
To my understanding Raven Ridge is based on Vega; the APUs are just estimated to have RX 460 performance, but I don't think there was any confirmation that they are actually using an RX 460. But even if the 460 is what it comes with, just crossfire with another 460 - why does Vega need to be part of the equation in such a scenario?
There's no information about that - at least I haven't seen any - but I doubt it.
Why doubt it? To my knowledge, every APU worth buying (for the sake of the IGP) supported hybrid Crossfire. Considering how much AMD is pushing things like HSA and DX12/Vulkan, I would be surprised if they didn't support it. Whether or not it is worth doing may be a different story.
In the past they could be paired up with something similar, in this case it would be a RX460, but that depends on if they can allow Vega and Polaris architectures to work together which i doubt.
To my understanding Raven Ridge is based on Vega; the APUs are just estimated to have RX 460 performance, but I don't think there was any confirmation that they are actually using an RX 460. But even if the 460 is what it comes with, just crossfire with another 460 - why does Vega need to be part of the equation in such a scenario?
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#5497068 Posted on: 12/01/2017 11:03 AM
BIOSes from Gigabyte should be landing today.
From GIGABYTE - Matt
"We skipped an AGESA (1071) because we felt it was too buggy for even BETA... Good news is new new AGESA/BIOS (1072a) ETA is Friday"
BIOSes from Gigabyte should be landing today.
From GIGABYTE - Matt
"We skipped an AGESA (1071) because we felt it was too buggy for even BETA... Good news is new new AGESA/BIOS (1072a) ETA is Friday"
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#5497932 Posted on: 12/04/2017 06:49 PM
That's great to hear , meaning the new APUs are near to be released. Good thing AM4 motherboards will be supported until year 2020 with all those new cpus incoming during the next 3 years = APUs + all the new ones within 3 years time will be supported as well as Ryzen Zen + , Ryzen 2 and so on whatever cpu they trow at it it will work with only a bios update
, good times ahead !
That's great to hear , meaning the new APUs are near to be released. Good thing AM4 motherboards will be supported until year 2020 with all those new cpus incoming during the next 3 years = APUs + all the new ones within 3 years time will be supported as well as Ryzen Zen + , Ryzen 2 and so on whatever cpu they trow at it it will work with only a bios update
, good times ahead !
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Will these APUs work in mGPU config with a discrete video card?