Tuesday, November 6th 2018

It Can't Run Crysis: Radeon Instinct MI60 Only Supports Linux

AMD recently announced the Radeon Instinct MI60, a GPU-based data-center compute processor with hardware virtualization features. It takes the crown for "the world's first 7 nm GPU." The company also put out specifications of the "Vega 20" GPU it's based on: 4,096 stream processors, 4096-bit HBM2 memory interface, 1800 MHz engine clock-speed, 1 TB/s memory bandwidth, 7.4 TFLOP/s peak double-precision (FP64) performance, and the works. Here's the kicker: the company isn't launching this accelerator with Windows support. At launch, AMD is only releasing x86-64 Linux drivers, with API support for OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.0, and OpenCL 2.0, along with AMD's ROCm open ecosystem. The lack of display connector already disqualifies this card for most workstation applications, but with the lack of Windows support, it is also the most expensive graphics card that "can't run Crysis." AMD could release Radeon Pro branded graphics cards based on "Vega 20," which will ship with Windows and MacOS drivers.
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29 Comments on It Can't Run Crysis: Radeon Instinct MI60 Only Supports Linux

#26
Ruru
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m4dn355TPU and fellow members should put the Crysis reference to rest. Amen
I'm probably going to use it for another 11 years.
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#27
qubit
Overclocked quantum bit
Chloe PriceI'm probably going to use it for another 11 years.
I love the Crisis gag, especially as it gets ever more ridiculous as the hardware gets faster.
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#28
GoldenX
qubitI love the Crisis gag, especially as it gets ever more ridiculous as the hardware gets faster.
Even an IGP can run it pretty well right now.
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#29
Ruru
Trepie
GoldenXEven an IGP can run it pretty well right now.
Ryzen 5 2400G's Vega 11 seems to do fine actually. :D
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