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AMD's next-gen graphics architecture has popped up in a graphics driver for the first time, with a suite of GFX13 patches going live in an AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver. This has first been reported by Michael Larabel at Phoronix , who spotted a series of eight patches being posted by AMDGPU maintainer, Alex Deucher.

The RDNA 4 GPUs, the Radeon RX 9070 XT et al, were all noted under the GFX12 codename in previous patches, so it is only natural to expect that GFX13 refers to the next generation of AMD graphics cards featuring the RDNA 5 architecture.

The timing of these graphics driver patches would suggest support for the new GPUs is going into the upcoming Linux 7.5 kernel release. With Linux 7.0 dropping earlier this year, and the 7.4 version currently in release candidate testing at the moment, it is expected that the 7.5 kernel release will occur sometime in early 2027.

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