What is core 0xfe?
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What is core 0xfe?
It's on the server stats webpage. It has 0 projects. Is it some placeholder core name that was left up? I'm guessing it's not a real core, but what is it?
Re: What is core 0xfe?
I saw somethere that this core gonna be a big improvement for AMD cards. Is this correct?
Whwn this core planned to become public?
Whwn this core planned to become public?
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Re: What is core 0xfe?
That's not correct.
Core in the topic name is developers core for a quick test when he wants to run few things for whatever he is doing while developing.
Any work for this core has no scientific value and has no points.
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Re: What is core 0xfe?
It's probably HIP that you heard about, which will provide big improvements for AMD GPUs. That will arrive in some future GPU core. The latest GPU core is the new 0x27 which is a modified version of 0x26 that fixes some of its problems, but it does not have HIP yet. Hopefully 0x28 will, but I don't know.
HIP is a programming interface for communicating with the GPU. The two other common alternatives are CUDA (which is specific to Nvidia) and OpenCL (which is vendor-agnostic). OpenCL is being used by AMD and older Nvidia GPUs, but it has bad performance. When HIP is ready, it will allow AMD GPUs to finally ditch OpenCL and performance will improve drastically.
Muziqaz has been working with AMD to improve HIP and has been testing it and finds that it puts AMD's RX 7900 XTX on par with Nvidia's RTX 4080, which really is a huge improvement. He'll let us all know when it's ready.