AMD's CEO has teased upcoming support for ROCm for its consumer lineup of Radeon GPUs in the coming future.
AMD ROCm Coming To Radeon GPUs Soon, Open-Source SDK For Windows OS & Wide List of Consumer Products
AMD ROCm (Radeon Open Compute Ecosystem and also pronounced as Rock-Em), is an open-source set of languages, compilers, libraries, and tools which are designed to compete against NVIDIA's CUDA. The ROCm suite was designed specifically to target the Instinct accelerators but AMD isn't stopping at just HPC GPUs. The company had plans to bring ROCm support to a wider audience and that's expected to happen really soon.
Back in April 2023, AMD's ROCm documents revealed that the company was planning to bring ROCm to the Windows OS & also offer a wide range of support for consumer-centric GPUs. The company currently offers ROCm support for its Instinct GPU accelerators starting with GCN 5.1, CDNA 1, & CDNA 2, & will be expanded to the upcoming CNDA 3 accelerators when they launch later this year.
| Product Name | Architecture | LLVM Target | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instinct MI250X | CDNA2 | gfx90a | ✅ |
| Instinct MI250 | CDNA2 | gfx90a | ✅ |
| Instinct MI210 | CDNA2 | gfx90a | ✅ |
| Instinct MI100 | CDNA | gfx908 | ✅ |
| Instinct MI50 | GCN5.1 | gfx906 | ✅ |
| Instinct MI25 | GCN5.0 | gfx900 | ❌ |
| Name | Architecture | LLVM Target | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radeon Pro W6800 | RDNA2 | gfx1030 | ✅ |
| Radeon Pro V620 | RDNA2 | gfx1030 | ✅ |
| Radeon Pro VII | GCN5.1 | gfx906 | ✅ |
With the most recent Alpha update, AMD added a few Radeon consumer GPUs to the list too which include the following:
- Radeon Pro V620 (previously supported)
- Radeon Pro W6800 (previously supported)
- Radeon Pro VIII (previously supported)
- Radeon RX 6900 XT
- Radeon RX 6600
- Radeon R9 Fury
We also saw that AMD was working to add support for RDNA 3 (Radeon RX 7000" GPUs to ROCm. And this support is further confirmed by AMD's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, herself who in a reply to George Holtz of the Tiny Corp, stated that the red team is committed to working with the community & offer improved support to its users. Dr. Lisa also confirmed that there's more to come on ROCm for the Radeon side of GPUs. The tweet can be seen below:
Thanks for connecting @realGeorgeHotz. Appreciate the work you and tiny corp are doing. We are committed to working with the community and improving our support. More to come on ROCm on @radeon soon. Lots of work ahead but excited about what we can do together.
— Lisa Su (@LisaSu) June 16, 2023
In a video published by George Hotz just a few weeks back, it was revealed just how poor AMD's software side of things was compared to NVIDIA and Intel. He ranted on about the support and even said that he was giving up on AMD entirely but that seems to have changed now and George now expects good things to come after Dr. Lisa Su's response. We will see how everything works out but bringing consumer Radeon GPU support to ROCm will definitely be a big win for the red team and its user base.
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