NTN House News on September 26, Foreign media Phoronix reported yesterday that AMD has contributed 275,000 lines of code to Linux for the next generation of Van Gogh (Van Gogh) APU support. Some of the codes revealed that the next-generation “Van Gogh” APU will support DDR5/LPDDR5 and VCN3 graphics encoding.
▲ Picture source Phoronix
Naija Tech News has learned that the support code for the “Van Gogh” APU is included in these 275,000 lines of code, but most of the rest are automatically generated GPU register header files.
In addition, the code also contains 45 patches. The patch is expected to be integrated into the Linux Kernel 5.10 kernel version, but it is not ruled out that it will be released in version 5.11, because according to the roadmap previously revealed, AMD ” “Van Gogh” APU will only be released in 2021.
▲ Picture source AMD official website
At present, there have been breaking news that AMD “Van Gogh” APU will support Navi2 nuclear display, using 7nm process and Zen 2 architecture, and is expected to be released at the end of this year or early next year .
And the code submitted by AMD does confirm the use of Zen 2 CPU core and Navi (RDNA 2) graphics core, support for DDR5/LPDDR5 memory, and have VCN 3.0 Video Core Next function. It also means that this generation of APU will support AV1 decoding.
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