AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub

Last week ROCm 6.3 was announced on the AMD Community Blog with a set of nice enhancements to this open-source GPU compute stack. While some good additions, when the announcement went live ROCm 6.2 software was still showing up as the latest and the open-source code via GitHub wasn't yet reflecting ROCm 6.3... That changed today...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.3-GitHub

[Dukenukemx]

Can I install this without needing to install AMD's drivers? Last time I tried it blacklisted AMDGPU.

[lem79]

Can I install this without needing to install AMD's drivers? Last time I tried it blacklisted AMDGPU.

Yep, if your distro is supported here: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/i...all/index.html
Just skip the amdgpu-dkms install steps.
I'm currently running ROCm 6.3 on Ubuntu 24.04 and the XanMod kernel (6.11.10), Ryzen 5900X + Radeon 6800XT. I've previously compiled Ollama and whisper.cpp successfully and both use the GPU via ROCm. Recompiled Ollama today and that still works well (no noticeable change in speed though, still get about 24 tokens/sec on Mistral-Small, a 22b parameter model).

[Jabberwocky]

Can I install this without needing to install AMD's drivers? Last time I tried it blacklisted AMDGPU.

(Didn't see lem79's response before posting)

According to the docs you can use "--no-dkms" option to skip the driver. I've seen people on reddit using "amdgpu-install --no-dkms --usecase=opencl" for example. Not sure which other parts of ROCm still works without the driver.

See: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/i...u-install.html

[DiamondAngle]

as always on linux i would strongly advise against installing vendor packages and strongly advise to install rocm from distro packages. Rocm dosent need anything special kernel wise (indeed the dkms kernel shipped with amds packages is often worse than upstream linux in various ways) and is pacakged in debian, fedora, arch linux and others.

[Dnonmi]

Their lack of priority for Windows and lower tier card support is ridiculous. It's not about being Nvidia, it's about beating Nvidia.
No wonder their stock is regressing, people are just tired of waiting.

[NeoMorpheus]

And we made it to 4 comments before the negative shit started.

Never fails after every ROCm article is published.

[Dnonmi]

And we made it to 4 comments before the negative shit started.

Never fails after every ROCm article is published.

Over 4 years of negative experiences and eternal waiting, what are you on about?

Said "negative shit" started many years ago. And it's on AMD, no one else.

[fitzie]

Their lack of priority for Windows and lower tier card support is ridiculous. It's not about being Nvidia, it's about beating Nvidia.
No wonder their stock is regressing, people are just tired of waiting.

I think lack of support for lower tier is due to the RDNA/CDNA split, and the residual cost of adding lower tier support that people aren't using who are doing GPGPU. But the the UDNA future and the the trend towards running AI inference on clients will mean that ROCm or similar will probably become a standard part of the driver stack in the future.

I'm very much exciting to replace my radeon VII with a 8800XT. That card is going to be a hit if it's comes out <= $650.

[Dukenukemx]

(Didn't see lem79's response before posting)

According to the docs you can use "--no-dkms" option to skip the driver. I've seen people on reddit using "amdgpu-install --no-dkms --usecase=opencl" for example. Not sure which other parts of ROCm still works without the driver.

See: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/i...u-install.html

Didn't realize there was a "--no-dkms" option. I'm running a Ryzen 5700X with a Radeon 6700 XT and currently using Linux Mint with Xanmod kernel, but I ordered a 2TB SSD and plan to switch over to CachyOS. Maybe the AUR has one that does it automatically?