After AMD posted GFX13 patches for the AMDGPU kernel driver earlier this week, the company has opened a Mesa merge request with very early GFX13 support for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers, Phoronix reports. GFX13 is believed to be the graphics IP in next-gen RDNA5 cards, expected to start shipping later in 2027.
This first request is just the foundation: chip IDs and descriptor changes. Follow-up work over the coming weeks and months should add more enablement, including ACO compiler back-end changes and register support.
My take
It’s good to see the Linux enablement start well before the hardware shows up. This is the first brick, not a playable driver.
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