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Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by dragontamer on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:02PM (#24433558)
Its pretty clear what's going on: AMD doesn't have the resources to support all the GPUs they release on ROCm. They focus on the "MI" line of cards, which have similarities to the consumer GPUs. (Ex: Rx Fury is very similar to MI8).

Because MI8 and Rx Fury have similarities, AMD gives ROCm support to both. Ditto with MI25 and Vega, and MI6 and Rx 580.

EDIT: With "Navi" gaining features in ROCm repos, my bet is that a new MI-card based on RDNA2 might be coming out soon. Maybe its Arcturus (the Exascale GPU for the Frontier supercomputer).

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Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by t-vi on Monday September 14, 2020 @09:35AM (#24469919)
No, Arcturus is CDNA (the Compute rather than Render architecture). Still with the Radeon VII EOL it would be good if they had a consumerish ROCm card, so RDNA2-support would be great.
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