AMD RDNA 3.5 “GFX 11.5” GPU Drivers Being Prepped, Will Support Ryzen 8000 CPUs & APUs
AMD is now actively working on Linux drivers for its next-gen RDNA 3.5 GPUs that will be featured within Ryzen 8000 CPUs & APUs in the coming year.
The folks over at the red team are already working on the first enablement patches for the RDNA 4 GPUs while simultaneously working on drivers for the next-gen RDNA 3.5 GPUs. The RDNA 3.5 GPU family has already been confirmed by AMD when they announced the Ryzen 8000 "Granite Ridge" Desktop CPU for 2024.
Based on the report from Phoronix who discovered the first patches for the RDNA 3.5 GPU drivers, it is revealed that the GPU will be based on the "GFX 11.5" IP which builds on the RDNA 3 "GFX 11" IP. The patch itself is 45.6k lines worth of code but most of them remain the same as the older lines for GFX 11.
The RDNA 3.5 GPUs will be incorporated within two confirmed product lines which are the Ryzen 8000 APU family codenamed Strix Point and the aforementioned Ryzen 8000 CPU family. Now it is likely that a possible RDNA 3 refresh may utilize the RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture, fine-tuning the existing architecture for better performance but that's speculation territory. The GFX1150 and the GFX1151 SKUs have already been revealed for the Ryzen 8000 APU family and you can read more on those here.
The AMD Ryzen 8000 CPU and APU family is expected to launch sometime in 2024. The Ryzen 8000 APUs will be featuring the higher-end integrated SKUs with multiple RDNA 3.5 compute units while the desktop CPUs will be limited to just 2-4 CUs like the existing generation. We are bound to get a few bits and pieces of these next-gen families around CES 2024.
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