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The Vega RX Thread (Rumors and Info)
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They’re not as stable. Sierra marked the first point where you could use the Nvidia Metal drivers and not expect things to just crash. In Sierra they’d render glitchy. They’ve been doing a lot of work on them for High Sierra but I haven’t done much testing on them yet.
Meanwhile the AMD drivers have been pretty solid.
To give nvidia credit they do appear to be working on the metal thing. I mean look at this job listing.
https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.co...ND-OPENCL-SOFTWARE-ENGINEER---MAC_JR1897400-5
https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.co...ND-OPENCL-SOFTWARE-ENGINEER---MAC_JR1897400-5
This job listing is more than two years old and every now and then someone thinks it’s new. Or the last guy leaves the job every few months.
Probably keep it listed forever because it’s a short term contract position that renews every few months.
Or they haven't been able to hire anyone? Who in their right mind would go and work on NVIDIA products from 2012 at this point?
Hmm, weird. Looks to be sort of a Polaris/Vega hybrid.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/326...eon-vega-m-may-be-more-polaris-than-vega.html
https://www.pcworld.com/article/326...eon-vega-m-may-be-more-polaris-than-vega.html
Vega 12 also appeared in the Linux drivers. Polaris 12 is the RX 550. But it seems Vega 11 was pulled (maybe to avoid confusion with the 2400G), so Vega 12 could actually be the Vega successor to Polaris 11/21 (RX 460/560).
It seems RX 560X is being used unofficially as the clock bump of the also unofficial RX 560M (original RX 560 in laptops).
RX 600 would fit nicely as Polaris with GDDR6 (which would not necessarily include the Kaby Lake G features).
It seems RX 560X is being used unofficially as the clock bump of the also unofficial RX 560M (original RX 560 in laptops).
RX 600 would fit nicely as Polaris with GDDR6 (which would not necessarily include the Kaby Lake G features).
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Raven is "Vega+". This adds full hardware decoding of VP9 (10-bit), instead of hybrid.
If RX 600 got the same video decoder, it would already be great (Kaby doesn't, so maybe using this GPU in cards does not make sense after all).
NVIDIA added VP9 (8-bit) hardware decoding with the GTX 750 SE, GTX 950 and GTX 960 (Titan X and other 700, 800, and 900 series cards do not have it). Starting with Pascal, some chips support 10 or 12-bit.
Intel added VP9 (8-bit) decoding in Apollo Lake. Kaby Lake, Gemini Lake, and Coffee Lake also add 8-bit encoding and 10-bit decoding.
If RX 600 got the same video decoder, it would already be great (Kaby doesn't, so maybe using this GPU in cards does not make sense after all).
NVIDIA added VP9 (8-bit) hardware decoding with the GTX 750 SE, GTX 950 and GTX 960 (Titan X and other 700, 800, and 900 series cards do not have it). Starting with Pascal, some chips support 10 or 12-bit.
Intel added VP9 (8-bit) decoding in Apollo Lake. Kaby Lake, Gemini Lake, and Coffee Lake also add 8-bit encoding and 10-bit decoding.
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The 500X series for OEMs has launched. They adjusted upwards the specification of boost speeds and introduced non-RX parts with 64-bit memory buses.
It does not mean the chips are any different. This is so that common users don't go by reviews or benchmarks performed with old drivers or silicon.
It does not mean the chips are any different. This is so that common users don't go by reviews or benchmarks performed with old drivers or silicon.
I don't see higher boost speeds, most of the X-cards are exactly the same as their predecessors:
https://www.amd.com/en/rx-series#paragraph-341606