AMD ROCm 5.5 Released With RDNA3 Improvements, Many Changes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD ROCm 5.5 Released With RDNA3 Improvements, Many Changes

As expected following yesterday's AMD Git activity, ROCm 5.5 was officially released overnight as AMD's latest version of their open-source GPU compute stack that is their alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA or Intel's oneAPI / Level Zero...

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

[Eirikr1848]

ROCM should really be available for GCN2 - RDNA3. Minor release lag with newer architectures is a thing but why is it this delayed?

(If they need devices to test, I’m sure Linus Tech Tips and JayzTwoCents have multiples of every architecture.)

[pegasus]

ROCm world is getting more and more interesting ... especially now that Mi50 / Radeon VII cards can be had for peanuts while still offering decent performance and useful amount of memory at respectable memory bandwidth. Perfect entry into the world of ai toys ...

[skeevy420]

ROCm world is getting more and more interesting ... especially now that Mi50 / Radeon VII cards can be had for peanuts while still offering decent performance and useful amount of memory at respectable memory bandwidth. Perfect entry into the world of ai toys ...

I think it sucks that AMD doesn't officially support consumer GPUs like the 6700 XT when people are able to get them working with ROCm. A new 6700 XT is about the same price as a used VII while running circles around it in regards to games. You'd think that AMD would open their consumer GPUs up to Pro features if the GPU is capable of doing them since that falls in line with how they're normally open source and consumer friendly.

[Mathias]

I think it sucks that AMD doesn't officially support consumer GPUs like the 6700 XT when people are able to get them working with ROCm. A new 6700 XT is about the same price as a used VII while running circles around it in regards to games. You'd think that AMD would open their consumer GPUs up to Pro features if the GPU is capable of doing them since that falls in line with how they're normally open source and consumer friendly.

Especially since the competition has cuda on every 10 year old toaster.

[pegasus]

A new 6700 XT is about the same price as a used VII while running circles around it in regards to games.

Pro world doesn't care about games, pro world cares about memory bandwidth. And Radeon (pro) vii is still king here in membw/price.

If you get 4 Mi50 together, you get 117% of performance of single H100 at ~20% of the price. Beat that Source: https://github.com/ProjectPhysX/FluidX3D

[NeoMorpheus]

Every time a ROCm article is posted, the same complaints are posted, yet those people conveniently ignore the fact that AMD has two well define different architecture for their gpus.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Pro world doesn't care about games, pro world cares about memory bandwidth. And Radeon (pro) vii is still king here in membw/price.

If you get 4 Mi50 together, you get 117% of performance of single H100 at ~20% of the price. Beat that Source: https://github.com/ProjectPhysX/FluidX3D

What system are you stuffing 4x dual slot dual 8 pin cards in?

[pegasus]

What system are you stuffing 4x dual slot dual 8 pin cards in?

Nothing special ... just a regular sp3 atx board and a psu leftover from mining days ...

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Every time a ROCm article is posted, the same complaints are posted, yet those people conveniently ignore the fact that AMD has two well define different architecture for their gpus.

NVIDIA basically owns the GPU compute market. CUDA is easy to install, has strong adoption, and works on every NVIDIA GPU. Home users / hobbyists are going to keep complaining until those three things are also true on the AMD side.