Radeon ROCm 2.0 Officially Out With OpenCL 2.0 Support, TensorFlow 1.12, Vega 48-bit VA

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon ROCm 2.0 Officially Out With OpenCL 2.0 Support, TensorFlow 1.12, Vega 48-bit VA

Just in time for Christmas, the Radeon Open Compute "ROCm" 2.0 Linux stack is now available for AMD GPU computing needs with OpenCL 2.0, TensorFlow 1.12, and more...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-ROCm-2.0-Arrives

[TemplarGR]

Great release. Things keep getting better and better for AMD open source efforts.

Still saddened that Tonga is not supported though. Or that GFX8 hardware needs atomics, while GFX7 and GHX9 do not... I hope this changes in the future. As a Piledriver + Tonga owner, i am a little unlucky here... LOL.

[Peter Fodrek]

As of new informations I do asnwer to

Does anyone know if ROCm/HSA has taken off somewhere ?

Around me, I see people using Cuda or OpenCL. No ROCm/HSA.

form

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1068189-amd-s-rocm-2-0-radeon-compute-stack-being-prepared-for-release

It is Capable to use openCL (and indirectly CUDA )

But it is big step

Radeon ROCm 1.9.1 vs. NVIDIA OpenCL Linux Plus RTX 2080 TensorFlow Benchmarks form 13 December 2018

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=rocm19-nvidia415-compute&num=1

A ROCm 1.x.y supports only openCL 1.2

On November 15, 2011, the Khronos Group announced the OpenCL 1.2 specification

and ROCm 2.x.y support openCL2.0

On November 18, 2013, the Khronos Group announced the ratification and public release of the finalized OpenCL 2.0 specification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL#History

But openCL2.0 and later supports fast data transfer as HSA do with anticipated performance rise as of

from

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-a10-7800-kaveri-apu-efficiency,3899-5.html

[ThoreauHD]

Big news. People been waiting on this opencl 2 shit for a long time.

[schmidtbag]

This is great. Makes AMD 1 major leap closer toward obsoleting the closed-source drivers.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Big news. People been waiting on this opencl 2 shit for a long time.

Until it gets built into distributions like Debian it doesn't exist. The entire stack guts Clang/LLVM on Debian primer and I can't imagine it doesn't do the same for Ubuntu.

[Guest]

It would be good news if they actually supported older hardware as well - I mean, the Radeon HD 6290 sitting in one of my old computers would like OpenCL support, as would my R9 390 that's also capable of OpenCL 2.0 - but isn't supported by ROCm.

[aufkrawall]

Stop complaining and buy Navi.

[M@yeulC]

Hey Michael, do you have any plans to benchmark TensorFlow with it? I don't know enough about it to contribute some tests (though I heard there was a container for ROCm + TensorFlow somewhere), but I know some people that would be interested in the results

[finalzone]

Still no support for Raven Ridge. Currently using OpenCL from Radeon Software 18.50 on Fedora 29.