AMD has added another RDNA 4 GPU die name to its ROCm software suite. Discovered by @Kepler_L2 on X (Twitter), the new Navi 44 die could be an entry-level GPU die in AMD's upcoming RX 8000-series lineup. Or it could be something else entirely, as AMD currently isn't saying much about its next-generation chips. Either way, these will eventually compete with the best graphics cards for gamers' dollars.
This is the second RDNA 4 GPU that AMD has added to the ROCm list for hardware enablement, the first being the Navi 48 die sporting the Gfx1201 moniker — Navi 44 boasts a Gfx1200 moniker. And that represents a bit of an oddity in naming conventions.
The presence of these GPUs in the ROCm support list at least suggests AMD is nearing completion of at least some of the upcoming RDNA 4 GPUs. But so far, the most interesting tidbit is the change in AMD's GPU die naming scheme. For the past several GPU generations, AMD has almost always produced new GPUs without skipping any numbers in the codename. For instants, RDNA 3 boasts three dies consisting of Navi 31, 32, and 33. Before that, RDNA 2 offered up Navi 21, 22, 23, and 24.
We have to go back to 2019's original RDNA with Navi 10 and Navi 14 to find a break in that pattern, but even then there are changes from established AMD GPU history. For example, Vega 10 and Vega 20 preceded the current RDNA families, with Polaris 10, 11, 12, 20, and 21 GPUs filling out the budget to midrange sector. So what's going on here?
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