Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/diving-into-qualcomms-upcoming-adreno

by rbanffy • 7 months ago

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andrewstuart• 6 months ago

What are their drivers like?

Fully open source? Unlikely methinks.

jordand• 6 months ago

Last I read was Mesa support for those Adreno GPUs is still work-in-process. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250930-kaana-gpu-support...

999900000999• 6 months ago

Would be nice if Qualcomm worked with at least 1 OEM to get at least one Linux distro supported at launch.

Hypothetically if they did I'd pre order one.

ra• 6 months ago

If we had a vibrant open source TPU interface, inference / training stack... what would be left of Nvidia?

onion2k• 6 months ago

We have that for GPUs and nVidia were doing pretty well before AI hardware started being popular.

david-gpu• 6 months ago

Shortly after this interview, Eric announced that he is leaving Qualcomm.

daemonologist• 6 months ago

Eric's post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eric-demers-7bb3b32_next-week...

jonkoops• 6 months ago

Surely it will work properly on Linux with upstreamed drivers, right? Right?

aseipp• 6 months ago

Mesa already has initial support for Adreno 8xx[1] and the DRM side was already merged into the kernel back in November.[2]

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38... [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ff3bf272156615d6c...

bfrog• 6 months ago

If only Qualcomm knew how to do software more than lawyer.

dingi• 6 months ago

What's the point? They are e-waste as soon as they leave the factory.

speed_spread• 6 months ago

This guy sure knows his Poutine. Unfortunately nothing described in the article is relevant without proper Linux support which is still unlikely despite Qualcomm's repeated pledges.

petermcneeley• 6 months ago

I see the mention of Wave64. It would be nice if we could all standardize on 32. The hw backend can do what it wishes (dual/quad issue etc).

Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers

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