Fedora 41 Looks To Ship Upcoming AMD ROCm 6.2 For Latest AI Capabilities

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 41 Looks To Ship Upcoming AMD ROCm 6.2 For Latest AI Capabilities

The ROCm 6.1 series is the latest stable version currently of AMD's open-source GPU compute stack with an increasing large focus on AI. AMD has confirmed to Red Hat that ROCm 6.2 will debut before the release of Fedora 41, so the developers are now hoping to be shipping ROCm 6.2 packages with this upcoming Fedora Linux release...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.2-Fedora-41

[geerge]

They've half assed rocm for years, now they'll half ass ai on rocm allowing them to neglect everything else even more. Super exciting

[aufkrawall]

You apparently can't use ROCm in WSL2 on various RDNA3 (and other) cards that are not officially supported by ROCm. Shameful and stupid.

[oleid]

But you can use ROCm just fine on Debian stable (what I'm using currently). Speed is good as well. I'm looking forward to seeing what ROCm 6.2 is going to provide.

[clockwork]

the irony of programmers destroying the own jobs

If you're replaceable by an LLM in any job, you're not good enough at your job. Especially as a programmer.

[sophisticles]

The sad thing is that in the end it will all be for naught.

As many of you know, I have positions in NVIDIA and am counting on them continuing to generate revenue and grow.

Having said that, I fully expect that eventually someone will come out with an discrete NPU that is many times faster than ROCm on AMD and CUDA on NVIDIA with significantly lower power consumption and effectively kill the AI on GPU craze that is fueling the AI stock surge that has been driving the tech sector gains.

Basically what happened with cryptomining only with AI.



If AMD was smart, a big IF in my opinion, they would be working on bringing such a device to data centers, because they are not going to out CUDA NVIDIA with ROCm.

[DiamondAngle]

They've half assed rocm for years, now they'll half ass ai on rocm allowing them to neglect everything else even more. Super exciting

Honestly ROCM on instinct hw is perfectly fine, it has all the features you would need, performance is good most of the time there is a rich set of libraries that all work well. There are some rough edges for sure, the profiling tools are a bit iffy sometimes and the occasional bug can creep into even the instinct parts and sometimes the performance dosent reach quite to the theoretical limits.

Besides cuda, rocm is the best high performance compute platform by far and that is an incredible increase in quality over any previous AMD effort which where... poor at best, its also light years ahead of oneAPI still, atho intel is slowly catching up too.

[Mathias]

What does "Fed41 code freeze" mean? here is the roadmap for 41. Is it the "branch 41 from Rawhide" date (2024-08-13) or "Beta Freeze" (2024-09-17) or "Final Freeze" (2024-10-22)? I'm eagerly waiting for 6.2 for it's alleged Navi1 support... On the other hand, I'm not interested enough to compile from source - I wasted enough time trying to get it working. (FYI HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0 doesn't work anymore)

[contik32]

But you can use ROCm just fine on Debian stable (what I'm using currently). Speed is good as well. I'm looking forward to seeing what ROCm 6.2 is going to provide.

Is it ROCm packages from Debian repos or from AMD repos? Or built from sources?

[oleid]

Is it ROCm packages from Debian repos or from AMD repos? Or built from sources?

I used the ones from AMDs repo to get the most recent ones. TBH I didn't try the integrated ones. Afair I used on Debian stable.