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> their latest API [...] is currently only supported on a handful of their latest top end cards While there's very few cards that are officially supported, I'v
by slavik81 3y ago
> their latest API [...] is currently only supported on a handful of their latest top end cards
While there's very few cards that are officially supported, I've enabled most RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs in the OS-provided packages on Debian Unstable and Ubuntu 23.10. I haven't tested every architecture, but my experience has been that they generally work quite well. The version of HIP packaged for Debian is still a few versions behind, so we haven't been able to enable RDNA 3 yet, but it shouldn't be too long before that is resolved.
As you have described, it has been a very long road to get to this point (with a lot of mistakes along the way), but I think things are getting better. That said, I work on ROCm, so my evaluation may be unintentionally biased.
- dagw 3y agoI think things are getting better Hopefully. Although I haven't programmed with it yet, the latest ROCm looks nice (at least from reading the docs). Now all you have to do is actually get to a point where it's actually supported on hardware people actually own and convince people that it's worth investing their time in, and then AMD can start making progress.
- slavik81 3y agoThe Debian packages support a much wider range of hardware than the AMD packages do. Just about any discrete AMD GPU hardware released in the past five years should already work or will work soon.