Radeon Software 18.3.3 snags Vulkan 1.1 support on AMD GCN GPUs

[Guest]

12 hours ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

these are the 13 games you talking about bro?! ahhh yeah...those 13 AAA titles right...laughable, come on!

 

If I'm not mistaken, Starcraft 2 has Vulkan support, as well as Metal.

 

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am mistaken, its just metal and openGL / directX etc. 

[RagnarokDel]

16 hours ago, Levent said:

I too wonder when AMD is going to drop HD series cards, IIRC they dropped HD4XXX-5XXX-6XXX series after 4 years and currently HD7XXX series is going for its 6th year.

the thing is r9 200 series are basically HD 7000 series card with the exception of the 290/x and in fact I believe there's some of it in the 300 series as well?

[Humbug]

4 hours ago, RagnarokDel said:

the thing is r9 200 series are basically HD 7000 series card with the exception of the 290/x and in fact I believe there's some of it in the 300 series as well?

In the 300 series launch the Fury (Fiji) stuff was new but everything below that was re-brands with minor tweaks.  However all the re-brands were gcn 1.1 or gcn 1.2 if I remember correctly. I don't think they brought forward any original gcn 1.0 HD7xxx  series stuff. At least in the mid-range. Not sure if they did it for some low end parts which I didn't follow.

[leadeater]

7 hours ago, RagnarokDel said:

the thing is r9 200 series are basically HD 7000 series card with the exception of the 290/x and in fact I believe there's some of it in the 300 series as well?

 

2 hours ago, Humbug said:

In the 300 series launch the Fury (Fiji) stuff was new but everything below that was re-brands with minor tweaks.  However all the re-brands were gcn 1.1 or gcn 1.2 if I remember correctly. I don't think they brought forward any original gcn 1.0 HD7xxx  series stuff. At least in the mid-range. Not sure if they did it for some low end parts which I didn't follow.

It was a giant mix, rather confusing but it wasn't just the 290/x that was on the new architecture. Just look and see if the graphics card supports TrueAudio and if it does it's the new architecture.

 

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AMD TrueAudio SIP blocks are found on the dies of some GPUs of the AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series;[13] namely the Radeon R7 260, Radeon R7 260X, Radeon R9 285, Radeon R9 290, Radeon R9 290X and the Radeon R9 295X2, and in Kaveri and Carrizo-based APUs.[13] TrueAudio is also supported by the PlayStation 4 hardware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_TrueAudio

Edited March 23, 2018 by leadeater

[Trixanity]

2 hours ago, leadeater said:

 

It was a giant mix, rather confusing but it wasn't just the 290/x that was on the new architecture. Just look and see if the graphics card supports TrueAudio and if it does it's the new architecture.

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_TrueAudio

290 launched 1.1 (2nd gen) aka Hawaii and the 280 series was a refresh of the 7900 series, aka Tahiti. Later, the 285 came out which was 1.2 (3rd gen), aka Tonga. With the 300 series they booted out Tahiti in exchange for a fully enabled Tonga chip, which was a mixed bag, in the 380 slot. Tonga was in many ways an inferior chip. Refreshed Hawaii in the 390 slot. Of course Fiji came later serving as a massive GCN 1.2 card called Fury. Then Polaris came around with multiple variants launching the 400 series which were 4th gen GCN. 500 series being refreshes of 400 series cards and Vega launching 5th gen GCN. Rest is history.

Spoiler

• Tahiti GCN 1st gen: 7900, 280
• Hawaii GCN 2nd gen: 290, 390
• Tonga GCN 3rd gen: 285, 380
• Fiji GCN 3rd gen: Fury
• Polaris GCN 4th gen: 480, 470, 460, 580, 570, 560, 550, 540
• Vega GCN 5th gen: Vega

Spoiler

Bonaire was also a mainstream GCN 2nd gen chip that launched with 7790 but got refreshed as 8770, 260, 360, 455.

AMD's lineup has been a mess since 2013 when they ran out of money to keep the GPU business going at full tilt. Earning them the nickname Rebrandeon.

 

A messy but decent outline of what AMD has been doing for half a decade now with the GPUs.

[leadeater]

26 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

290 launched 1.1 (2nd gen) aka Hawaii and the 280 series was a refresh of the 7900 series, aka Tahiti. Later, the 285 came out which was 1.2 (3rd gen), aka Tonga

Yep, but that was the big sticking point about the 200 series, that not everything was actually the new architecture and the middle top card wasn't one of them. The 280/x should really have been, the 260/x made no sense to be when the direct card above it wasn't or the one above that but then the 290/x was.

 

The other weird thing was for the more well optimized games the 285 performed lower than the 280, credit where it's due though it was achieving it's results with a smaller memory bus and 60W TDP less with the same SPs/TUs/ROPs and 28nm node. GCN 1.2 unlike 1.1 actually did improve performance efficiency by a measurable amount, very measurable.

[Nicnac]

21 hours ago, leadeater said:

My friend is still using my old 6970 now, surprising that it can actually run stuff rather well just not on ultra obviously or above 1080p.

It was such a great card at its time and yea it can still game at 1080p today!

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Wow. Maybe I should pull my 7770 out of mothballs and shove it in a secondary rig for my room