AMD starts the ball rolling for GDDR7 in next-gen GPUs with small code adjustment in its Linux drivers

Summary

AMD has filed its latest driver patches for Linux and included within those are the first indication of support for GDDR7. As spotted by Phoronix , the AMDGPU patch specifically adds the identifier "GDDR7" to the driver. It's only a small change—a single line in a pile of code for the company's open source GPU driver—yet it aligns with our expectations of…