Discussion RDNA4 + CDNA3 Architectures Thread

[DisEnchantment]

With the GFX940 patches in full swing since first week of March, it is looking like MI300 is not far in the distant future!
Usually AMD takes around 3Qs to get the support in LLVM and amdgpu. Lately, since RDNA2 the window they push to add support for new devices is much reduced to prevent leaks.
But looking at the flurry of code in LLVM, it is a lot of commits. Maybe because US Govt is starting to prepare the SW environment for El Capitan (Maybe to avoid slow bring up situation like Frontier for example)

See here for the GFX940 specific commits

History for llvm/lib/Target/AMDGPU - llvm/llvm-project

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. - History for llvm/lib/Target/AMDGPU - llvm/llvm-project

github.com

Or Phoronix

More AMD "GFX940" Enablement Work Landing In LLVM - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

There is a lot more if you know whom to follow in LLVM review chains (before getting merged to github), but I am not going to link AMD employees.

I am starting to think MI300 will launch around the same time like Hopper probably only a couple of months later!
Although I believe Hopper had problems not having a host CPU capable of doing PCIe 5 in the very near future therefore it might have gotten pushed back a bit until SPR and Genoa arrives later in 2022.
If PVC slips again I believe MI300 could launch before it

This is nuts, MI100/200/300 cadence is impressive.



Previous thread on CDNA2 and RDNA3 here

Question - Speculation: RDNA3 + CDNA2 Architectures Thread

Man I have been dying to make this one for a while now. First rumours for RDNA3 are here so new thread time! Just going to start off with this one for now: kopite7kimi on Twitter: "@VideoCardz Ah, I mean a simple mcm design with 10240 cores is not enough. Because the lift from RDNA2 to RDNA3...

forums.anandtech.com

 

[DAPUNISHER]

9070GRE falls where you'd expect. I don't know what's up with some of their results. Either drivers, or they suck at testing now that Gordon is RIP.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Steve and Tim discussing how more reviewers are also finding the fine wine results. Steve shilling was never the right answer.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

9070GRE falls where you'd expect. I don't know what's up with some of their results. Either drivers, or they suck at testing now that Gordon is RIP.

- WTF did I just watch. Was one of those guys W1ZZ?

 

[SolidQ]

N36 or just OC variant?

Unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU Prototype Cooler Pictured: Massive 3-Slot Design & Triple 8-Pin Connectors, Could've Been Reserved For A RTX 4090 Competitor

An unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU prototype cooler has been spotted, featuring a massive 3-slot design & triple 8-pin connector interface.

wccftech.com

 

[marees]

N36 or just OC variant?

Unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU Prototype Cooler Pictured: Massive 3-Slot Design & Triple 8-Pin Connectors, Could've Been Reserved For A RTX 4090 Competitor

An unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU prototype cooler has been spotted, featuring a massive 3-slot design & triple 8-pin connector interface.

wccftech.com

Did N36 ever tape out ?

Outside of RGT no one has leaked about it ??

 

[Bryo4321]

N36 or just OC variant?

Unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU Prototype Cooler Pictured: Massive 3-Slot Design & Triple 8-Pin Connectors, Could've Been Reserved For A RTX 4090 Competitor

An unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU prototype cooler has been spotted, featuring a massive 3-slot design & triple 8-pin connector interface.

wccftech.com

Very interesting. Could just be a “to the moon” clocks version of n31 but maybe they decided the power scaling was poop and to go 355w for the reference instead. There was a lot of drama about the size of the ada cards at the time iirc. AMD made a big point about it being a “drop in” upgrade 2x8 pin during that rdna3 reveal.

 

[Vikv1918]

24 days into July and no driver update. Is this normal? Isn't there usually one update per month? I'm hoping (coping) that it's taking time because they're planning something big like Redstone

 

[Shmee]

24 days into July and no driver update. Is this normal? Isn't there usually one update per month? I'm hoping (coping) that it's taking time because they're planning something big like Redstone

Lately the Radeon driver releases have been coming later in the month, at least for the full WHQL versions. Maybe they are just a bit late getting them out at times.

 

[Ranulf]

- WTF did I just watch. Was one of those guys W1ZZ?

Can I get the quick version? Did Tim go back to defending proprietary tech or something?

 

[SolidQ]

That an interesting test.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945216019154248127

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Can I get the quick version? Did Tim go back to defending proprietary tech or something?

-The guy with the full beard is the "straight man" who keeps saying deeply ignorant things so the guy with the short hair can correct him, because these videos need to have that conversational format to work.

It just comes off as silly.

 

[Schmide]

Microsoft screwing with AMD drivers again. It bit me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/1m7twzq/my_amd_version_is_251016_which_is_odd_because_it

I've been having all these weird stuttering (youtube), monitor flicker, monitor blackout (sound still works), etc. It seemed to do better if I used more than one display.

Upgraded (downgraded from windows ) to the beta driver and it seems much better.

Never seen this windows update bug happen to my nVidia machines?

Edit: actual driver update text "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - Display - 32.0.13031.2000 (2) 6/26/2025"

 

[Ranulf]

I'd say it is just typical windows idiocy that occasionally happens. It has been a few years since I've run AMD drivers on a daily use machine though. In my experience over the last ten years, as long as you have the manufacturer driver suite installed, windows generally behaves and doesn't install drivers on its own.

 

[Schmide]

I do DDU and get drivers from AMD before windows gets its hooks in. The MS driver is newer than even the beta driver on AMDs site. 100% MS screwing up.

 

[igor_kavinski]

100% MS screwing up.

Hiring dumbasses or using AI. I hope it's the latter.

 

[maddie]

Hiring dumbasses or using AI. I hope it's the latter.

But you repeat yourself.

 

[igor_kavinski]

But you repeat yourself.

I'm the original AI!

 

[mostwanted002]

I know 2 days is very soon, but any 3rd party benchmark numbers for Radeon PRO AI R9700??

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The following is mostly tongue and cheek; mostly.



The conspiracy theory that Steve is taking undisclosed sponsorship money from AMD AKA shilling, has not held up well. Because more outlets continue to confirm the fine wine results with both the same, and different titles. I have somewhat facetiously quipped upon occasion, that they are doing the classic good cop, bad cop routine on us. Tim just produced more bad cop content.

What happened? Tim nerfed the AC:Shadow results badly. He later removed the results but left the data in for the 15 game bigger bar better conclusion. As well as his comments about Nvidia being much faster in that game. Anyone not reading his pinned comment, potentially got - the way you are meant to be played.

Mistakes happen. How this one is being handled is where the tinfoil starts looking justified. He should have pulled the content completely, until he could deliver the correct results and remarks. That would have delayed expected revenue from the content, so greed won.

It is also a cop out to claim he could not add a heavily AMD favored title in Black Ops 6 because it does not support DLSS 4. He would only be running the benchmark so no big deal to use the override for it.

Spoiler

 

[Shmee]

The following is mostly tongue and cheek; mostly.

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The conspiracy theory that Steve is taking undisclosed sponsorship money from AMD AKA shilling, has not held up well. Because more outlets continue to confirm the fine wine results with both the same, and different titles. I have somewhat facetiously quipped upon occasion, that they are doing the classic good cop, bad cop routine on us. Tim just produced more bad cop content.

What happened? Tim nerfed the AC:Shadow results badly. He later removed the results but left the data in for the 15 game bigger bar better conclusion. As well as his comments about Nvidia being much faster in that game. Anyone not reading his pinned comment, potentially got - the way you are meant to be played.

Mistakes happen. How this one is being handled is where the tinfoil starts looking justified. He should have pulled the content completely, until he could deliver the correct results and remarks. That would have delayed expected revenue from the content, so greed won.

It is also a cop out to claim he could not add a heavily AMD favored title in Black Ops 6 because it does not support DLSS 4. He would only be running the benchmark so no big deal to use the override for it.

Spoiler

I like dinos and the philosoraptor.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I like dinos and the philosoraptor.

-I'm an idiot

 

[Shmee]

-I'm an idiot

What did you do? You don't like them?

 

[Ranulf]

My cat's breath smells like leather jackets and spatulas.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

What did you do? You don't like them?

-I posted correcting you that the meme is cleverly known as a philosoraptor.

After I posted I realized you already knew that and I was the one that misread velociraptor.