Yesterday it was reported that AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs do not receive a ROCM support during the launch. It is not surprising that this was planning to upgrade many developers their setups and hoped for a seamless transition. However, ROCM support may not be far behind the launch, because AMD’s Vice President of AI Software has plagued what an AMD GPU seems to be from the RX 9070 series that is performed in a special ROCM environment.
ROCM is an open-source software stack for GPU programming, with which graphic cards can be used for much more than displaying images. ROCM enables selected GPUs to engage HPC and AI applications, including professional instinct rapists, Prosumer Radeon Pro GPUs and a handful of Radeon GPUs of consumer quality.
AMD seemed to be missing to miss the opportunity to offer day one support to developers. Ironically, the first traces of Navi 48, the chip under RX 9070 GPUs, appeared last year in ROCM updates. Anush Elangovan reported that RDNA 4 “ROCM’ing is on fine”, which demonstrates a potential RX 9070 series GPU under ROCM-SMI (ROCM System Management Interface).
Rocm’ing on excellent https://t.co/ksquduq34W pic.twitter.com/xhootvpzueFebruary 28, 2025
Developers have repeatedly disputed AMD’s slow acceptance of new ROCM functions and support on mainstream -hardware. AMD officially supports the RX 7000 and RX 6000 families from GPUs and the Radeon VII on Windows. Select RDNA 2 GPUs can only use the hip runtime and have no access to the full HIP SDK. Linux support, which is remarkably better and more consistent, only extends to the RX 7900 series and the Radeon VII. There are a few solutions to get no -supported hardware going with ROCM, which is said to be more successful in Linux environments.
On the contrary, Nvidia’s Cuda can be performed with GPUs from 2006. Of course, newer architectures offer updated function sets and beautiful instructions. Given the recent progress in AI, 90% of Nvidia income is the result of his data -oriented accelerators, powered by Cuda in their hearts. This shows how critical ROCM is for AMD if it wants to compete against the mammoth that Nvidia has become in the AI room.
To broaden the ROCM support, the next addition is likely to be Strix Halo, or the Ryzen Ai Max 300 series. With no less than 128 GB Unified memory, Strix Halo is much more than a gaming laptop; It is more tailor-made for LLM infection and development, in which Apple’s M-series Silicon is tackled.
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