AMD has released Radeon Open Compute Platform (ROCm) 5.6, the newest version of its open source GPU compute platform. If you want to buy a modern GPU, ROCM officially supports only AMD Instinct RDNA 2 workstation graphics cards. However, in response to feedback concerning the difficulties of running ROCm on additional AMD GPUs, AMD has chosen to broaden its support. AMD will add ROCm compatibility to more RDNA 2 GPUs and select AMD RDNA 3 workstation and consumer GPUs this autumn.
Because of advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, consumer interest in GPU compute has skyrocketed. AI acceleration has become a very valued quality. Perhaps this shift in the computing environment caught some people off guard.
AMD only includes AI acceleration in their Ryzen 7040 Phoenix consumer CPUs. Mobile CPU manufacturers, on the other hand, have been adding and fine-tuning AI acceleration for multiple generations.
AMD ROCm is supposed to provide a full range of AI and HPC workload optimisations.
It claims to provide “fine-tuned kernels for large language models, support for new data types, and support for new technologies like the OpenAI Triton programming language.”
The first ROCm support on RDNA 3 GPUs is expected in the autumn. According to the AMD Community site, the first such graphics cards to receive official support will be the 48GB Radeon PRO W7900 and the 24GB Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Additional RDNA 3 cards and improved capabilities will be added in the future.
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