Radeon ROCm 5.0 Released With Some RDNA2 GPU Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon ROCm 5.0 Released With Some RDNA2 GPU Support

Overnight AMD quietly released ROCm 5.0 for improving the Radeon Open eCosystem. Most exciting with ROCm 5.0 is having some level of Navi 2x / RDNA2 GPU support!..

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-ROCm-5.0

[Maxzor]

Hell yea!

[Danny3]

They removed Polaris support, WTF?

[Maxzor]

They removed Polaris support, WTF?

AMD announced that official support for Polaris was dropped a few months ago already.
Still, it does not mean that GPUs do not work at all with ROCm anymore, far from it... you still have support for Terascale cards in the LLVM backend.

[andre30correia]

and rdna 1? really?

[Danny3]

AMD announced that official support for Polaris was dropped a few months ago already.
Still, it does not mean that GPUs do not work at all with ROCm anymore, far from it... you still have support for Terascale cards in the LLVM backend.

If it still work, then I'm ok with it!

[darkbasic]

As always two steps backwards for each step forward

[ernstp]

I could do OpenCL only with upstream kernel on Ubuntu 22.04 with sudo apt install rocm-opencl

[ms178]

ROCm on consumer GPUs beyond GFX9 (Vega) seems to be a WIP, that is not a great signal to consumers. I know they are prioritizing their server parts and GFX9 is the technical base there, but still. Consumer care about the support of their GPUs on day one (or when they can get their hands on one of these nowadays) - and not two years after release.

[piorunz]

Does is mean OpenCL will work on Debian with Radeon 6800XT cards, or that's still in dreams territory?