Motherboard manufacturers Release AM4 BIOS With Raven Ridge APU Support

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Will these APUs work in mGPU config with a discrete video card?
     
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    There's no information about that - at least I haven't seen any - but I doubt it.
     
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    There is supposedly the ability to delegate in DirectX 12, but haven't heard anything since it was initially reported.
     
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    Nothing is automatically done by magic, it has to done by the application developer. Here is a sample demo: https://github.com/Microsoft/Direct...amples/Desktop/D3D12HeterogeneousMultiadapter
    The same logic, though for different tasks, is used in AotS when you run the game with both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs on the same system.
     
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    In the past they could be paired up with something similar, in this case it would be a RX460, but that depends on if they can allow Vega and Polaris architectures to work together which i doubt. Maybe they can reduce power draw in that when ideal or minor graphical work use the APU GPU while the external graphics card is idle to save power consumption
     
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    Why doubt it? To my knowledge, every APU worth buying (for the sake of the IGP) supported hybrid Crossfire. Considering how much AMD is pushing things like HSA and DX12/Vulkan, I would be surprised if they didn't support it. Whether or not it is worth doing may be a different story.

    To my understanding Raven Ridge is based on Vega; the APUs are just estimated to have RX 460 performance, but I don't think there was any confirmation that they are actually using an RX 460. But even if the 460 is what it comes with, just crossfire with another 460 - why does Vega need to be part of the equation in such a scenario?
     
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    BIOSes from Gigabyte should be landing today.

    From GIGABYTE - Matt
    "We skipped an AGESA (1071) because we felt it was too buggy for even BETA... Good news is new new AGESA/BIOS (1072a) ETA is Friday"
     
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    That's great to hear , meaning the new APUs are near to be released. Good thing AM4 motherboards will be supported until year 2020 with all those new cpus incoming during the next 3 years = APUs + all the new ones within 3 years time will be supported as well as Ryzen Zen + , Ryzen 2 and so on whatever cpu they trow at it it will work with only a bios update :) , good times ahead !
     
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