AMD ROCm 5.5 In The Process Of Being Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD ROCm 5.5 In The Process Of Being Released

AMD has begun publishing ROCm 5.5 source packages for the Radeon Open eCosystem components making up their GPU compute stack that is also being extended to cover Xilinx products and more...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ROCm-5.5-Releasing

[scottishduck]

The 5 users must be excited

[Mathias]

Yeah. Concentrate on getting it into every distro. It was great to see Rocm coming to windows (because many will continue to use that). It will be embarrassing, when after being Linux only for 7 years, it will be installable by 5-year olds on windows and still need a degree to install on most Linux distros.

[illwieckz]

Also « The 5 users must be excited » can be heard as « the 5 users having a compatible hardware must be excited ». There is something smaller than ROCm software compatibility: ROCM hardware compatibility.

[NeoMorpheus]

Die cuda die!

[Mystro256]

Yeah. Concentrate on getting it into every distro. It was great to see Rocm coming to windows (because many will continue to use that). It will be embarrassing, when after being Linux only for 7 years, it will be installable by 5-year olds on windows and still need a degree to install on most Linux distros.

I'm working on it with Fedora and EPEL (RHEL). I'm building rocm-opencl 5.5 in Fedora 38 as I type.
You can do "sudo dnf install rocm-opencl" with EPEL 8/9, and any active Fedora release. Granted, there's some kinks I'm working out, but it's getting there.
I hope to get hip in Fedora and EPEL soon after ROCm 5.6 is released, then after that I will try to see if I can get pytorch or similar working.

Debian has a lot of working packages too, which is already trickling into Ubuntu universe. I try to touch base ever so often to share notes, but there's a lot more effort and people over there.

[Mathias]

I'm working on it with Fedora and EPEL (RHEL). I'm building rocm-opencl 5.5 in Fedora 38 as I type.
You can do "sudo dnf install rocm-opencl" with EPEL 8/9, and any active Fedora release. Granted, there's some kinks I'm working out, but it's getting there.
I hope to get hip in Fedora and EPEL soon after ROCm 5.6 is released, then after that I will try to see if I can get pytorch or similar working.

Debian has a lot of working packages too, which is already trickling into Ubuntu universe. I try to touch base ever so often to share notes, but there's a lot more effort and people over there.

Thanks for your work. I actually use Fedora. Last I tried, ROCm from the repo only provided some of the stuff needed and I couldn't get Blender working yet. Pytorch (and the other ML frameworks) would be amazing! I can't wait for the day, where I read something about some ML paper, download the code and it just works... (which obviously would mean that no CUDA specific code is used)

[wsippel]

Also « The 5 users must be excited » can be heard as « the 5 users having a compatible hardware must be excited ». There is something smaller than ROCm software compatibility: ROCM hardware compatibility.

ROCm supports any AMD GPU since at least Vega, but not all parts of ROCm support all GPUs. OpenCL should work anywhere (people often forget that OpenCL is part of ROCm, and rocm-opencl is the only usable OpenCL driver for AMD GPUs), HIP works on anything except for some very low-end GPUs where it doesn't really make sense to begin with, MIOpen should work on all discrete RDNA and CDNA GPUs, rocWMMA works on all chips that have the necessary hardware (CDNA2, CDNA3, RDNA3).

[Mahboi]

the 5 users must be excited

yes i am finally

[illwieckz]

ROCm supports any AMD GPU since at least Vega, but not all parts of ROCm support all GPUs. OpenCL should work anywhere […]

Unfortunately not true, here is a test I did in October (I only tested OpenCL, I used LuxMark 3 LuxBall as a benchmark):



Even the Radeon Instinct MI25 didn't worked.

Some people says it can also depend on the motherboard and some UEFI option, not only the GPU. In the past ROCm even explicitely required some CPU/MOBO features not all computer had. You have to properly align the GPU, the Motherboard, the CPU and maybe even the UEFI configuration to get ROCm working.

ROCm is a very good example of software one can say “it works for me” but cannot assume it will works for others. I would be very happy if “ROCm supports any AMD GPU since at least Vega, OpenCL should work anywhere” was true. It is not, unfortunately.