Monday, January 21st 2019
AMD "Navi" GPU Code Surfaces in Latest Apple MacOS Mojave Beta
System software code used for detecting and installing AMD's upcoming Radeon "Navi" family of graphics processors surfaced in the latest Apple MacOS "Mojave" beta. Version 14.2 beta of the operating system packs preparation for AMD's next-generation GPUs through a device identifier "0x73101002." A similar piece of code surfaced on early versions of MacOS "Sierra" some 6 months prior to Radeon "Vega" family launch, which perfectly aligns with this release of Mojave preceding the speculated mid-2019 launch of "Navi."
The code makes four references, Navi 16, Navi 12, Navi 10, and Navi 9. We're not quite sure if these are brand names or ASIC codes pointing to the number of next-generation compute units enabled on the silicon. If they are the latter, and assuming AMD hasn't changed the number of stream processors per NGCU, we're looking at the possibility of these chips being mid-range performance successors to the "Polaris" family, and it's likely they'll find place in Apple's upcoming generation of iMac, and possibly even MacBooks.
Many Thanks to theoneandonlymrk for the tip.
Source:
tonymacx86
The code makes four references, Navi 16, Navi 12, Navi 10, and Navi 9. We're not quite sure if these are brand names or ASIC codes pointing to the number of next-generation compute units enabled on the silicon. If they are the latter, and assuming AMD hasn't changed the number of stream processors per NGCU, we're looking at the possibility of these chips being mid-range performance successors to the "Polaris" family, and it's likely they'll find place in Apple's upcoming generation of iMac, and possibly even MacBooks.
23 Comments on AMD "Navi" GPU Code Surfaces in Latest Apple MacOS Mojave Beta
Will there be a high end version of Navi, or will that be left for Vega refreshes to cover?
Unlike with Polaris, bigger version of which (i.e. what could have become real 590) was abandoned in favor of Vega, which disappointed.
Still wccf just ran it too so I'd say it's not unworthy that's 3 sites i know of now reporting it.
@jesdals analysis confirms your post is ironic as f###@ , erroneous link to a polaris and endng ,"really not neaded" , see yourself out then.
it was posted on november 6th :banghead:
i suppose you're not into mac things
and i have noted that apparently this NEWS burst out on a mac FORUM in that link, yeah how did i miss it.