AMD's Answer to AI Advancement: ROCm 7.0 Is Here

[AleksandarK]

In August, AMD will release ROCm 7, its open computing platform for high‑performance computing, machine learning, and scientific applications. This version will support a range of hardware, from Ryzen AI-equipped laptops to Radeon AI Pro desktop cards and server-grade Instinct GPUs, which have just received an update. Before the end of 2025, ROCm 7 will be integrated directly into Linux and Windows, allowing for a seamless installation process with just a few clicks. AMD isn't planning to update ROCm once every few months, either. Instead, developers will receive day-zero fixes and a major update every two weeks, complete with performance enhancements and new features. Additionally, a dedicated Dev Cloud will provide everyone with instant access to the latest AMD hardware for testing and experimentation.

Early benchmarks are encouraging. On one test, an Instinct MI300X running ROCm 7 reached roughly three times the speed recorded with the original ROCm 6 release. Of course, your mileage will vary depending on model choice, quantization, and other factors. This shift follows comments from AMD's Senior Vice President and Chief Software Officer, Andrej Zdravkovic, whom we interviewed last September. He emphasized ROCm's open-source design and the utility of HIPIFY, a tool that converts CUDA code to run on ROCm. This will enable a full-scale ROCm transition, now accelerated by a 3x performance uplift simply by updating the software version. If ROCm 7 lives up to its promise, AMD could finally unlock the potential of its hardware across devices, both big and small, and provide NVIDIA with good competition in the coming years.



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[Rover4444]

Wow, very cool, actual updates. I wonder how much RDNA 2-4 has improved in applications that use ROCm.

 

[igormp]

I wonder if they'll add the SPIR-V generic target with this version, that will make it way easier to support multiple GPUs at once without the mess of having a huge multi-GB package that has special blobs for each µarch.

 

[LastDudeALive]

"Expanding the ROCm experience beyond the cloud, ROCm 7 supports development on Ryzen laptops and workstations, enabling consistent innovation from cloud to client."

So this is just for the Ryzen AI chips with NPUs. I don't see any mention of support for their gaming GPU line. And they wonder why Nvidia is 3.5x their market cap. Absolutely insane they're just ignoring it, no support even for RDNA 4. What a massive, massive failure of management.

 

[Rover4444]

"Expanding the ROCm experience beyond the cloud, ROCm 7 supports development on Ryzen laptops and workstations, enabling consistent innovation from cloud to client."

So this is just for the Ryzen AI chips with NPUs. I don't see any mention of support for their gaming GPU line. And they wonder why Nvidia is 3.5x their market cap. Absolutely insane they're just ignoring it, no support even for RDNA 4. What a massive, massive failure of management.

RDNA 4 does have ROCm support actually. Had it since 6.4.1 in May. What's even more insane to me is that's the same update where the RX 7800 XT finally got support what the fuck.

 

[LastDudeALive]

RDNA 4 does have ROCm support actually. Had it since 6.4.1 in May. What's even more insane to me is that's the same update where the RX 7800 XT finally got support what the fuck.

So they're not going to put their fantastic new ROCm 7 on their consumer GPUs? Or they'll just wait 2 years until the entire lineup is irrelevant again? Masterful gambit, AMD.

 

[Patriot]

So they're not going to put their fantastic new ROCm 7 on their consumer GPUs? Or they'll just wait 2 years until the entire lineup is irrelevant again? Masterful gambit, AMD.

I am struggling to figure out why you think they dropped support for RDNA4 in ROCm7?