Latest macOS Catalina beta reveals eight unreleased AMD Radeon GPUs

Apple seeds beta releases of software ahead of a populace launch to Fe out the kinks, making certain its ready for the public. That pre-release software tin sack also concur other details inwards the mix, too, similar a serial of unreleased products from some other society altogether.

That appears to endure the illustration this fourth dimension some amongst the instant beta seed of macOS 10.15 Catalina, which Apple seeded non also long ago. Eight unreleased AMD Radeon graphics processing units (GPUs) bring been discovered within the code of macOS Catalina’s instant developer beta, every bit was outset noticed past times developer Steve Moser (via AppleInsider).

Here’s the tweet from Moser:

Unannounced AMD GPUs mentioned inwards Catalina Beta 2:
Radeon RX Vega twenty GL XT WKS
Radeon RX Vega twenty GL XT Server
Radeon RX Vega twenty XTA
Radeon RX Vega twenty XLA
Radeon RX Vega twenty XTX
Radeon RX Vega UNKNOWN
Radeon Pro Vega twenty XTA
Radeon Pro Vega twenty XLA /cc @TUM_APISAK @_inside pic.twitter.com/GCzdScDhPo

— Steve Moser (@SteveMoser) June 26, 2019

There are half dozen GPUs hither that are listed every bit Radeon RX Vega twenty cards, spell at that spot are ii branded every bit Radeon Pro Vega 20. Each of the RX cards are listed every bit “prototype” within the macOS Catalina code, which could hateful a diverseness of things. However, every bit noted inwards the master copy study it could advise that these cards are nonetheless nether the developmental procedure from AMD, together with could launch soon.

As for what the different acronyms mean, that is anyone’s estimate at this point. One possibility is these are tags for specific hereafter Mac models coming downward the delineate of piece of occupation from Apple. Those Radeon Pro Vega GPUs could endure destined for the novel modular Mac Pro, for instance. The other cards could endure heading to other specific models inwards the future.

Though using the novel RDNA gaming architecture together with Navi GPUs rather than Vega, 1 of the cards could endure an intentionally misnamed version of the Radeon RX5700 series, which boast 7nm GPUs together with upwardly to 10.14 teraflops of performance. At the function past times of the listing is the RX 5700 50th Anniversary Edition, which offers xl compute units, 2,560 stream processors, together with 8GB of GDDR6 memory.

It is unlikely that whatsoever of the cards volition plough out to endure the Radeon VII, every bit it is already supported inwards macOS every bit of version. 10.14.5. Offering 25-percent faster functioning than before Vega cards, the Radeon VII has xvi gigabytes of memory, offering upwardly to threescore compute units clocked at upwardly to 1.8GHz.

While the code inwards the instant developer beta of macOS Catalina reveals the 8 unreleased AMD Radeon GPUs, it doesn’t hand us whatsoever company dates to human face whatsoever of these products to meet the calorie-free of day. So fifty-fifty if Apple does conception on launching Macs amongst these GPUs installed inwards some version or another, it’s also possible that plans alter downward the road.

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