Radeon ROCm 1.9.2 Released - Brings SDMA/RDMA Support For Vega 20, HIP/HCC Improvements

[schmidtbag]

Of course it was on him. The design of Vega and Polaris were under his vision. The GPU wasn't going to save AMD. The CPU was always the strength and if he couldn't manage to develop a compelling architecture for what he promised he deserved to be canned.

That logically makes no sense, at all.
To put it in another perspective, let's say you're in school and you were assigned math homework. Typically, you're able to complete it just fine. But then, your bratty sibling comes around and keeps taking the book from you that has your equations, preventing you from getting your work done. Despite the fact you have the time, mental capacity, and willpower to do the work, you were unable to complete it. So by your logic, failing to do the homework is entirely your fault. Do you seriously agree with that?

Nobody except diehard AMD fans said the Vega was going to save AMD - don't blow things out of proportion. Hypothetically, let's say resources weren't taken away from Raja's team and it still inevitably turned out to be underwhelming. In such a case, it most certainly would have been better than it turned out to be. That doesn't mean it'd have been the GTX 1080Ti killer we all wanted, but it definitely would have been better.

Also, how exactly do you come to the conclusion that AMD's strength was always the CPU? You do realize the Bulldozer generation is what brought them into such serious debt and not the Radeon group, right? Nowadays, yes, the CPU division is AMD's main source of income, but to say it always has been is provably false.

[TheGoddessInari]

There hasn't been an actual release of ROCm 1.9.2 as of yet. Only two repos got tags, no package updates, and Michael is linking to a pull request from a week-old account where this is the first commits/PR it's done, and it's only commits for the README.

Is there any evidence that it's even legitimate?

[bridgman]

AFAIK 1.9.2 is pretty close to release (most of the preparation work is done) but not quite out yet.

[rbmorse]

Maybe Intel is laying groundwork to buy ATI from AMD.

[perpetually high]

Confirming 1.9.2 is finally released via their PPA, just ran apt update and pulled in the latest packages.

13 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
N: Repository 'http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian xenial InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '1.9.1' to '1.9.2'