AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Finally Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Finally Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon

The OpenCL 3.0 compute specification has been out in finalized form since September 2020. Since then NVIDIA's official Windows/Linux drivers have been exposing OpenCL 3.0 going back to 2021, the Intel Compute Runtime stack has also been exposing OpenCL 3.0 support for years, and even with Mesa's Rusticl open-source OpenCL implementation it's beginning to see Gallium3D drivers with conformant OpenCL 3.0. Yet if installing the AMD ROCm compute stack right now, you'll see OpenCL 2.1. But it looks like OpenCL 3.0 will soon be here for ROCm...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-OpenCL-3.0-Soon

[Veto]

Is it soon time again for a Rusticl vs. ROCm showdown?

[ms178]

Not responding to that reasonable request for a year is the sad part of the story.

[ddriver]

Considering it's just a rebranded CL 1.2 baseline, and like 4 years old, that's quite a sad announcement.

[Danny3]

And for fucks sake AMD, just help distros' developers / maintainers to package by default like Mesa!
At least for a few major distros like OpenSUSE, Debian, Fedora.

[agd5f]

OpenCL 2.1 has more default features than OpenCL 3.0 so at least if you see 2.1, you know that it has all of those features. For 3.0, you have to query to see what is available.

[aufkrawall]

Official support for more cards that doesn't lock out WSL2 when?

[agd5f]

And for fucks sake AMD, just help distros' developers / maintainers to package by default like Mesa!
At least for a few major distros like OpenSUSE, Debian, Fedora.

We have been working with fedora and debian for a while to package ROCm. Native ROCm packages are already available in recent versions of those distros.

[finalzone]

We have been working with fedora and debian for a while to package ROCm. Native ROCm packages are already available in recent versions of those distros.

We confirm on Fedora side notably with the active improvement of HIP support for Blender 3D.

[stormcrow]

We confirm on Fedora side notably with the active improvement of HIP support for Blender 3D.

But still not in a usable state outside of the hardware AMD already supports. It completely crashes Blender trying HIP on a RX 6650 XT on Fedora 40 with the benchmark test files (or any .blend for that matter). Yes I sent in what debug information I could gather.