Earlier this week Apple introduced its new Big Sur macOS during the WWDC conference. It is named after the coastal region of Big Sur in the Central Coast of California. In a symbolic gesture accompanying Apple’s transition of the Macintosh to a new CPU architecture, the primary version number of the operating system has been incremented for the first time since the release of the Mac OS X Public Beta in 2000.
macOS Big Sur features a major user interface redesign, support for iOS and iPadOS apps, and is designed to take advantage of Apple-designed ARM processors in future Macs. This is the first OS to have support for Apple’s own ARM-based Silicon.
Now, according to Hardware Leaks, the website owned by the Twitter user _@rogame, some references to the AMD’s upcoming BIG NAVI 31 GPU have been spotted in the latest ‘macOS 11’ GPU drivers which sort of confirms the existence of an even bigger/powerful NAVI GPU in the works, which would be a direct successor to NAVI 21. These entries basically confirm that both Apple and AMD will collaborate to deliver high-end graphics solutions to macOS users as well. NAVI 31 will be based on the next-gen RDNA3 architecture, and these are the first references being spotted today in macOS 11 drivers.
We are still waiting for Big Navi aka NAVI 21 codenamed as “Sienna Cichlid” to arrive later this year if everything goes well according to AMD’s roadmap. But it appears that AMD also has a bigger NAVI GPU in the works. Both Navi 21 and Navi 31 will be launched under the Radeon RX and Radeon Pro series.
Last year Komachi also found references to the NAVI 31 chip, along with many more codenames related to gaming consoles. So this is not the first time we are hearing about Navi 31, just to be clear.
Apart from the Navi 31 leak, we also have references to the Navi 22 GPU SKU (a successor to Navi 12) and also Navi 23 (likely a successor to Navi 14 GPU):
- 0x73A0 (Navi22)
- 0x73A2 (Navi22)
- 0x73A3 (Navi22)
- 0x73AB (Navi22)
- 0x73AE (Navi22)
- 0x73BF (Navi23).
Some entries related to AMD’s next-gen upcoming Zen 3 APU codenamed as “Cezanne”, and Radeon Instinct MI100 and MI200 HPC/deep learning series have also been spotted.
References to Navi 31 as spotted in the macOS 11 Big Sur OS
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Another big NAVI card incoming ? That’s good to know.
This Mac will be huge change in “PC” memory setup. It will unified memory between CPU and GPU just like consoles. If they want use fast RDNA then I think that this will be shared HBM between CPU and GPU or something like that. Classic DDR4 or next-gen DDR5 are too slow as unified memory.
Can you imagine fast APU with 500 GB/s of memory bandwidth? This will be many times faster than any PC with DDR4
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So only MAC is going to get an upgrade, or even Windows PCs ?
shut the hell up man ! I’m sick and tired about reading your negative comments under each topic.
I get your point, but Criticism is good if it kept constructive, but your comments only include the following words, “soy”, BS, “junk”, “crap”, “shameless”, “garbage”, just to name a few.
You are confusing feminism with consoles. Do you think windows is out of the equation? LOL!
We don’t even have RDNA2 in the market yet. Just release the damn product already AMD. When are the Big navi cards arriving ? Later this year, or you have plans to delay it even further, giving Nvidia more chances of survival, lol.
i know right. if they would have came out same day or before or after 2077 stream and be like hey we have ray tracing, this-that, price is cheaper than 1080ti, we have blah blah blah specs,etc then people would have pre ordered that like hot cakes. now most likely nvidia will announce there 2080ti or whatever first. amd has been lazy for months on gpu side. im glad there killing it in cpu but nvidia will smash them in gpu now that they are gonna reveal at same time.
Nvidia survival? It was the opposite.
Just wait for Navi 31 lol.
I’m sitting on Vega 64 right now and i’m wondering if i should wait for these so called cards that are coming or just pick up a Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 5700 Xt, because they are coming down in price. Currently temporarily using a Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 5600 Xt which belongs to my woman, but i’m wondering if should just make the leap from my Vega 64 to the Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 5700 Xt .
Hi, I don’t think upgrading from Vega 64 to the RX 5700 XT would be worth it, IMO. If you can wait for some more time, then you might be able to buy a much more faster GPU than the 5700 XT.
The price/perf ratio of the next-gen cards should be better than current gen NAVI.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking about the most, “The price performance ratio”. Well good looking out and here’s to keeping our fingers crossed that it’s better on those fronts for next gen. ?