Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware

AMD's upcoming GFX1250 and GFX1251 GPU targets, flagged with SRAM ECC support in LLVM, are confirmed as enterprise Instinct hardware, likely for the MI400 series. The feature flag, shared only with previous Instinct GPUs, indicates these are AI/HPC accelerators rather than consumer RDNA4 parts.

Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware With the ongoing work around the AMD Whatever the AMD GFX1250 series ends up being for, it's quite exciting in The newest indicator of GFX1250/GFX1251 being for enterprise is seeing the LLVM Git activity yesterday with those new AMD GPU targets both being flagged for "FEATURE SRAMECC". This feature flag is for indicating static RAM ECC. The only other AMD GPUs with SRAM ECC are the GFX906 / GFX908 / GFX90A / GFX942 / GFX950 parts... the AMD Instinct hardware. So with GFX1250 https://www.phoronix.com/search/GFX1250 and GFX1251 in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 https://www.phoronix.com/search/GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series. Adding to the intrigue is GFX1251 being an APU https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX1251-LLVM-Target . The latest LLVM compiler activity is further pointing to GFX1250/GFX1251 being for enterprise hardware.Whatever the AMD GFX1250 series ends up being for, it's quite exciting in doubling the number of SGPRs https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX1250-32-User-SGPRs - scalar general-purpose registers, new instructions for better memory efficiency, and other improvements.The newest indicator of GFX1250/GFX1251 being for enterprise is seeing the LLVM Git activity yesterday with those new AMD GPU targets both being flagged for "FEATURE SRAMECC". This feature flag is for indicating static RAM ECC. The only other AMD GPUs with SRAM ECC are the GFX906 / GFX908 / GFX90A / GFX942 / GFX950 parts... the AMD Instinct hardware. So with