AMD Details The MI300X & MI300A, Announces ROCm 6.0 Software
As I was expecting, AMD also used today's AI event for announcing ROCm 6. ROCm 6.0 brings more performant AI libraries, expanded ecosystem support, and more large language model (LLM) optimizations.
AMD is showing big performance improvements with ROCm 6 over ROCm 5 in addition to being better catered now for AI/LLM workloads.
It will be interesting to see how well ROCm 6.0 works out in practice. With today's event focused on the Instinct MI300 series, it wasn't revealed if ROCm 6.0 will broaden the Radeon consumer GPU support beyond the current Radeon RX 7900 series support to lower-end RDNA3 GPU models or similar.
In any event these are some interesting announcements out of AMD today with finally having the Instinct MI300 series ready to go and AMD continuing to embrace open-source software around their ROCm software stack and continuing to mature it to become a more compelling alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA.
AMD also used today's San Francisco event for announcing the Ryzen 8040 mobile series with a focus on the Ryzen AI XDNA capabilities.
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