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Title: New Linux kernel update may have tipped AMD's hand by leaking Big Navi specs
Post by: Redaktion on September 23, 2020, 22:11:29
A new update to the Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) firmware details some key specs for Big Navi, codenamed Sienna Cichlid, and Navy Flounder. These include the number of Compute Units (CUs) and the memory bandwidth of the two new GPUs from AMD.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/New-Linux-kernel-update-may-have-tipped-AMD-s-hand-by-leaking-Big-Navi-specs.495172.0.html
Title: Re: New Linux kernel update may have tipped AMD's hand by leaking Big Navi specs
Post by: Has.no.idea on September 24, 2020, 08:53:56
RocM is not the Linux kernel, my dudes..
Title: Re: New Linux kernel update may have tipped AMD's hand by leaking Big Navi specs
Post by: Has.an.idea on September 25, 2020, 06:27:29
No it's not, but code in the Linux kernel mentions the hardware and the ROCm update. Read back through the sources my dude
Title: Re: New Linux kernel update may have tipped AMD's hand by leaking Big Navi specs
Post by: has.no.idea on September 25, 2020, 08:27:21
Quote from: Has.an.idea on September 25, 2020, 06:27:29
No it's not, but code in the Linux kernel mentions the hardware and the ROCm update. Read back through the sources my dude
I read through the sources given. No sign of rocm mentioning in the the linked source code of the linux kernel, my dude..