Daniel_Mallorca1985
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Within AMD's official IPs:
RDNA = NAVI 12/10/14 Class = GFX 10 **
AMD has classified ARIEL (shaded) as GFX10 ** (RDNA) architecture as the 5700/5600/5500 in its Open IP.
It is known from AMD's documentation that RDNA2 is NV2 * (GFX 20 **) and indeed:
NV21 (Bignavi, high-end)
NV22 (upper middle range)
NV23 (mid-range)
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This adds to the suspicions (from weeks ago) of Cerny's presentation where he highlights the Geometry Engine and Primitive shaders (Characteristics of RDNA 1) instead of its VRS / Mesh Shaders (RDNA2) variants.
Presentation of Cerny:
The official AMD documentation on the Primitive shaders / Geometry Pipeline in RDNA 1 mentioned in the presentation.
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Finally the Epic demo intended to show the new features of PS5, does not strangely use any of the features of RDNA 2, and its presentation WCCF TECH highlights the following
According to Senior Graphics Programmer Brian Karis, Epic used PlayStation 5's primitive shaders (properly introduced by AMD with the RDNA 1.0 architecture), though the developers also made 'hyper-optimized' software shaders.
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I personally think Ariel is an RDNA 1 customized to support some RDNA 2 features. There is nothing in the Sony or AMD documentation that indicates that it has full support of all the features of RDNA 2. We will see .....
RDNA = NAVI 12/10/14 Class = GFX 10 **
AMD has classified ARIEL (shaded) as GFX10 ** (RDNA) architecture as the 5700/5600/5500 in its Open IP.
/ * TARGET BAFFIN * / {HSA_BAFFIN_ID, " " , " polaris11 " , " gfx803 " , " Baffin " , 4 , 16 , 1 , 256 , 64 * Ki, 32 , 0 , 0} | |
/ * TARGET VEGA10 * / {HSA_VEGA10_ID, " " , " gfx900 " , " gfx900 " , " gfx900 " , 4 , 16 , 1 , 256 , 64 * Ki, 32 , 0 , 0 }, | |
/ * TARGET VEGA10_HBCC * / {HSA_VEGA10_HBCC_ID, " " , " gfx901 " , " gfx901 " , " gfx901 " , 4 , 16 , 1 , 256 , 64 * Ki, 32 , 0 , 0 }, | |
/ * TARGET RAVEN * / {HSA_RAVEN_ID, " " , " gfx902 " , " gfx902 " , " gfx902 " , 4 , 16 , 1 , 256 , 64 * Ki, 32 , 0 , 0 }, | |
/ * TARGET VEGA12 * / {HSA_VEGA12_ID, " " , " gfx904 " , " gfx904 " , " gfx904 " , 4 , 16 , 1 , 256 , 64 * Ki, 32 , 0 , 0 }, | |
/ * TARGET VEGA20 * / {HSA_VEGA20_ID, " " , " gfx906 " , " gfx906 " , " gfx906 " , 4 , 16 , 1 , 256 , 64 * Ki, 32 , 0 , 0 }, | |
/ * TARGET ARIEL * / {HSA_ARIEL_ID, " " , " gfx1000 " , " gfx1000 " , " gfx1000 " , 2 , 32 , 1 , 256 , 64 * Ki, 32 , 0 , 0 }, | |
/ * TARGET NAVI10 * / {HSA_NAVI10_ID, " " , " gfx1010 " , " gfx1010 " , " gfx1010 " , 2 , 32 , 1 , 256 , 64 * Ki, 32 , 0 , 0 }, | |
/ * TARGET MI100 * / {HSA_MI100_ID, " " , " gfx908 " , " gfx908 " , " gfx908 " , 4 , 16 , 1 , 256 , 64 * Ki, 32 , 0 , 0 }, | |
/ * TARGET NAVI12 * / {HSA_NAVI12_ID, " " , " gfx1011 " , " gfx1011 " , " gfx1011 " , 2 , 32 , 1 , 256 , 64 * Ki, 32 , 0 , 0 }, | |
/ * TARGET NAVI14 * / {HSA_NAVI14_ID, " " , " gfx1012 " , " gfx1012 " , " gfx1012 " , 2 , 32 , 1 , 256 , 64 * Ki, 32 , 0 , 0 } https://github.com/RadeonOpenComput...9d2ee1dc6/runtime/device/rocm/rocdefs.hpp#L75 |
It is known from AMD's documentation that RDNA2 is NV2 * (GFX 20 **) and indeed:
NV21 (Bignavi, high-end)
NV22 (upper middle range)
NV23 (mid-range)
______________________________________
This adds to the suspicions (from weeks ago) of Cerny's presentation where he highlights the Geometry Engine and Primitive shaders (Characteristics of RDNA 1) instead of its VRS / Mesh Shaders (RDNA2) variants.
Presentation of Cerny:
The official AMD documentation on the Primitive shaders / Geometry Pipeline in RDNA 1 mentioned in the presentation.
______________________________________
Finally the Epic demo intended to show the new features of PS5, does not strangely use any of the features of RDNA 2, and its presentation WCCF TECH highlights the following
According to Senior Graphics Programmer Brian Karis, Epic used PlayStation 5's primitive shaders (properly introduced by AMD with the RDNA 1.0 architecture), though the developers also made 'hyper-optimized' software shaders.
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I personally think Ariel is an RDNA 1 customized to support some RDNA 2 features. There is nothing in the Sony or AMD documentation that indicates that it has full support of all the features of RDNA 2. We will see .....