Alongside [1]announcing the AMD Instinct MI350 series at their AI day, [2]ROCm 7.0 was also introduced and will be available today in preview form.

ROCm 7.0 provides Instinct MI350 series support plus supports additional algorithms and newer models, additional AI features, cluster management, and more enterprise capabilities.

AMD is also talking up some big performance gains with ROCm 7... One important caveat that I questioned them over. The "ROCm 6" comparison is against when the model support was first introduced and not against the latest ROCm 6.4.1 stable release. So not an entirely straight-forward comparison of what improvements are new just to ROCm 7.0 but in some cases do incorporate some of the ROCm 6.x.x improvements since their introduction.

In any event there have been some significant performance improvements with ROCm in recent times.

And more enterprise features coming to ROCm.

ROCm 7.0 will be available in preview form today while the formal ROCm 7.0 release sounds like it will be out later in 2025. During the briefings AMD reaffirmed that they are working on "ROCm everywhere for everyone", including their Radeon client GPUs and more.

In case you missed the article last month, [3]ROCm 7.0 will also better align C++ more closely with NVIDIA CUDA .

I will be working on some ROCm 7.0 testing and performance benchmarking soon with available Radeon GPUs.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Instinct-MI350X-MI355X

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/ROCm+7.0

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.0-HIP-Plans