04-03-2021

Mac Os For Amd Apu



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For AMD Radeon™ Graphics, AMD Radeon Pro Graphics, and AMD Processors with Radeon Graphics Only. For use with systems running Microsoft® Windows® 7 or 10 AND equipped with AMD Radeon™ graphics, AMD Radeon Pro graphics, or AMD processors with Radeon graphics. Download and run directly onto the system you want to update. Whether this sits in a AMD coded driver bundled with the OS or Apples coded OS is kind of immaterial to my point. The image from the article appears to be an alphabetic list of GPU and APU. One leaker has spotted a ton of references to AMD APU and GPUs, in what may be the first hint of an AMD-powered MacBook Pro being in development. Evidence of AMD.

Since its switch to the x86 machine architecture from PowerPC in the mid-2000s, Apple has been consistent with Intel as its sole supplier of CPUs for its Macbooks, iMac desktops, and Mac Pro workstations. The company's relationship with rival AMD has been limited to sourcing discrete GPUs. If pieces of code from a MacOS beta is anything to go buy, Apple could bite the AMD bullet very soon. References to several AMD processors were found in MacOS 10.15.4 Beta 1. These include the company's 'Picasso,' 'Renoir,' and 'Van Gogh' APUs.
It's very likely that with increasing CPU IPC and energy-efficiency, Apple is finally seeing the value in single-chip solutions from AMD that have a good enough combination of CPU and iGPUs. The 7 nm 'Renoir' silicon in particular could change the mobile and desktop computing segments, thanks to its 8-core 'Zen 2' CPU, and a 'Vega' based iGPU that's highly capable in non-gaming and light-gaming tasks. AMD's proprietary SmartShift feature could also be leveraged, which dynamically switches between the iGPU and an AMD discrete GPU.
Source: _rogame (Twitter)

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64 Commentson Apple Finally Buying AMD CPUs? Pointers to Ryzens Found in MacOS Beta

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Mac Os For Amd Processor

I am really curious about this renoir APU. I'm thinking about getting one of these although I'm not convinced it will be Mac. Anyway, Since Apple is going AMD that means the company does see value in the processors. No shock there.

Last week Apple held its annual WWDC digitally. The biggest news was probably the announcement of the two year x86 to Arm Mac CPU transition. However, other things were announced/ launched such as iOS 14, and Apple MacOS 11 Big Sur, claimed to be 'the biggest update in more than a decade'. Since last week, data miners have been poking around with Apple's beta laptop/desktop OS and supporting drivers, and found some rather interesting things.

Hardware Leaks highlights that some of the most interesting hardware name-checks in Big Sur are of unannounced AMD products, GPUs in particular. Starting with discrete graphics, there are strings referencing six new Navi 2 GPUs - these appear to indicate support for the Navi 22 and Navi 23 GPUs in addition to the previously spotted support for Navi 21. We have no firm info about what GPUs will be capable of but AMD has indicated it will be selling a wide range of Navi 2X, Big Navi, RDNA 2 graphics products from halo GPUs to APUs - and such products will eventually make up the whole of the next gen Radeon range for consumers.

The Apple Mac drivers provide the first mention of the Navi 31 GPU. This is expected to be the first Navi 3 or RDNA 3 product to become available. It seems to be quite an early mention but that is encouraging and suggests AMD is on track with its GPUs and has momentum behind it.

AMD's MI100 & MI200 data centre accelerators, based upon CDNA GPUs, get a mention in the driver files too.

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Finally, a couple of AMD APUs that are yet to be launched get name-checked in the driver; the AMD Cezanne and Van Gogh APUs. VideoCardz (sourcing Igor'sLAB) has some more rumours/information about these APUs today. According to the latest chitter-chatter, Cezzane will be the successor to Renoir desktop APUs with a combo of Zen 3 cores plus Vega graphics. Desktop APU users will have to wait until Rembrandt's arrival for the combination of Zen 3 plus RDNA graphics. Van Gogh is expected to succeed the Mobile Athlon 3000U (Dali) in a similar timescale (2021) and feature Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA graphics.