There is a laptop market for low-end dedicated GPUs, this market does not require powerful graphics cards for gaming, but is limited by the integrated GPUs that PC SoCs typically have. This is the market targeting Beige Goby or Navi 24, AMD’s smaller RDNA 2, which may well appear under the trade name AMD Radeon RX 6400.
Beige Goby, the most modest of the RX 6000< /b>
Oh interesting, Beige Goby appears to be Navi24.
It only has one SDMA engine, usually dGPUs have 2.16MiB Infinity Cache / Last Level Cache.
128KiB L1 $ is shared under 4 WGP / 8CU.
1 MB L2 $.
1 Shader Engine with 2 Shader Arrays would only give 8WGPs / 16 CUs = 1024 Shader Cores. https://t.co/zJ9cbAexis– Locuza (@Locuza_) May 12, 2021
A few days ago, the mention of a new GPU appeared in the Linux drivers for AMD GPUs under the code name “Beige Goby”, which was confirmed to correspond to Navi 24, the least powerful of the RX 6000 or RDNA 2 from AMD. Let’s not forget that the nomenclature of AMD GPUs goes from the strongest to the least powerful when it comes to numbering.
What configuration will Beige Goby have? Well, from what we know, this is practically half of the Navi 23, since its configuration is solo 16 computing units. So this GPU would be the RDNA 2 with the lowest configuration of all. If we also pay attention to its supposed specifications, we can deduce that it is a model with an interface of 64-bit GDDR6
However, its configuration of a single SDMA drive is rare considering that GPUs typically carry 2, one to move data from RAM to VRAM and the other to do the opposite. So we may be faced with a new implementation of DMA units in AMD GPUs.
What is the target market for this GPU?
A few months ago, Intel launched its Intel Iris Xe series of dedicated GPUs, which is based on a small dedicated GPU with its own memory and with a higher configuration than Intel’s integrated GPUs. We know that Intel will launch the second generation of Intel Iris Xe, based on the second generation of its graphics architecture, DG2.
So Navi 24 or Beige Goby is an answer to these Intel GPUs, which are going to be sold in the same way as their competitors delivered with their portable processors. In principle, don’t expect to see the launch of a dedicated graphics card based on this desktop GPU, although we can’t rule out seeing desktops with Beige Goby or Navi 24.
So we’re not really looking for a Gaming GPU, but rather an AMD answer to the NVIDIA MX and the Intel Iris Xe. In other words, dedicated entry-level GPUs that are fitted into a certain segment of laptops. With it, AMD would complete the launch of all its GPUs based on its RDNA 2 architecture.
