Radeon ROCm 2.6 Released - Without Navi Support But Adds BFloat16 & Other Features

[artivision]

I'm pretty the ROCm implementation does have image support... are you maybe thinking about Clover ?

libhsa-ext-image64.so is part of hsa-ext-rocr-dev closed component and not present on many distributions like Arch.

[Veto]

Just wondered what AMD hardware that supported bfloat16 natively. However it seems the answer is "none" yet.

Added mixed precision bfloat16/IEEE f32 to gemm_ex. The input and output matrices are bfloat16. All arithmetic is in IEEE f32.

[ernstp]

Again no open source image support. AMD will end up others doing their work.

Also, ROCm is open source...

[bridgman]

I'm pretty the ROCm implementation does have image support... are you maybe thinking about Clover ?

[artivision]

Again no open source image support. AMD will end up others doing their work.

[finalzone]

Still waiting for better support of both desktop and mobile Raven Ridge. OpenCL is still slow with the Rocm version

[AndyChow]

Has anyone tried it on PCIe 4 (or PCIe 3 but on a PCIe 4 slot), and does it work?

[MadeUpName]

I did about my 20th reinstall trying to get the viewers in the fusion tab working in Davinci Resolve and yesterday they finally stated working. I couldn't figure out why it just suddenly started working. I need to reboot and see if this is the reason.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon ROCm 2.6 Released - Without Navi Support But Adds BFloat16 & Other Features

ROCm 2.6 was released overnight and when initially seeing this new Radeon Open Compute support come right after the Radeon RX 5700/5700XT launch, I was hopeful it would bring Navi support but sadly there are no signs of it in this release. But at least ROCm 2.6 is bringing other features...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-ROCm-2.6-Released