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AMD introduces ROCm 5.0, which supports the Instinct MI200 series and RDNA 2 architecture GPUs

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AMD quietly released ROCm 5.0, making related improvements and enhancements. The biggest change is the support for Radeon Pro V620 and Radeon Pro W6800 workstation GPUs, which provides support to some extent for the Navi 2x GPU based on the RDNA 2 architecture. In addition, the addition of the Instinct MI200 series of computing cards can provide strong support for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI applications.

ROCm is an open software platform built for high flexibility and performance, for accelerated computing and unlimited programming languages, enabling participants in the machine learning and high-performance computing communities to accelerate code development with a variety of open source computing languages, compilers, libraries, and redesigned tools for large-scale computing and multi-GPU computing.

AMD introduces ROCm 5.0, which supports the Instinct MI200 series and RDNA 2 architecture GPUs

For a long time, though, ROCm didn't provide effective support for TheAvi 1x and Navi 2x GPUs. Although workstation GPUs are supported on ROCm 5.0, it is possible that the Radeon RX 6000 series can be used with ROCm 5.0 due to the associated nature of consumer GPUs. Phoronix said that relevant tests will be carried out, and whether ROCm 5.0 will re-support polaris architecture GPUs has yet to be confirmed. ROCm 5.0 also adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 and introduces part of the kernel-mode driver code for AMDGPUs/AMDKFD.

Last year AMD established a project called GPUFORT, which is also part of ROCm. AMD has been working for a long time to help developers migrate as much CUDA-specific code as possible to interfaces supported by Radeon's open source computing stack, allowing large CUDA code bases to work outside the NVIDIA ecosystem. In this ROCm 5.0, the relevant supported code has also been optimized.

Since AMD did not explain ROCm 5.0 in advance, there are still many issues to be identified.

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