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AMDGPU LLVM Backend Flips On "True16" Mode For All RDNA3 GPUs


A late change to the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end that may help efforts particularly for the ROCm compute support on RDNA3 hardware is finally merging support for using true 16-bit instructions and registers on all RDNA3 GPUs.

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