AMD ROCm 7.12 Tech Preview Brings More Consumer APU & GPU Support
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AMD ROCm 7.12)
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.12-Tech-Preview
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In addition to this week's [1]ROCm 7.2.1 stable point release , ROCm 7.12 was also released as the newest tech preview in working toward what will presumably be called ROCm 8.0.
As a reminder, late last year [2]ROCm 7.9+ began as a new technology preview series built atop TheRock build system. Versions 7.9 and later of 7.xx for ROCm are tech preview releases working toward the next major ROCm milestone later this year or next. These tech previews use TheRock as AMD's modern open build and release system that is much more modular than the current monolithic ROCm system. The new build system also allows for more domain-specific catering to different users/workload areas and is a leaner core than the status quo.
Exciting with the new ROCm 7.12 Tech Preview is supporting more consumer hardware than existing releases. The Ryzen AI 400 series is now supported along with the Ryzen 200 series, the old Instinct MI100 support is restored, and also there is now official support for the Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7700 XE graphics cards. The Radeon RX 7600 is nearly three years old, it's long overdue but nice finally seeing it officially mentioned for ROCm support.
The new hardware support in ROCm 7.12 includes:
- AMD Instinct MI100
- AMD Radeon RX 7700 XE
- AMD Radeon RX 7600
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 475
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 470
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 PRO 465
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450
- AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 440
- AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 435
- AMD Ryzen 9 270
- AMD Ryzen 7 260
- AMD Ryzen 7 250
- AMD Ryzen 5 240
- AMD Ryzen 5 230
- AMD Ryzen 5 220
- AMD Ryzen 3 210
ROCm 7.12 also adds support for Debian 12 with Instinct hardware, expanded GPU virtualization support with KVM SR-IOV for more RHEL releases on the MI350/MI355, expanded GPU partitioning support, and expanded AI ecosystem support. The broader AI ecosystem coverage includes PyTorch 2.10 support, JAX 0.8.0/0.8.2, vLLM 0.16 wheels, and other updates.
ROCm 7.12 also adds a Runfile installer to help with ROCm / AMD GPU driver deployment without relying on a native Linux package management systems. Great and long overdue.
More details on the many ROCm 7.12 tech preview changes can be found via the [3]ROCm documentation .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.2.1
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/ROCm-Core-SDK-7.9
[3] https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/
As a reminder, late last year [2]ROCm 7.9+ began as a new technology preview series built atop TheRock build system. Versions 7.9 and later of 7.xx for ROCm are tech preview releases working toward the next major ROCm milestone later this year or next. These tech previews use TheRock as AMD's modern open build and release system that is much more modular than the current monolithic ROCm system. The new build system also allows for more domain-specific catering to different users/workload areas and is a leaner core than the status quo.
Exciting with the new ROCm 7.12 Tech Preview is supporting more consumer hardware than existing releases. The Ryzen AI 400 series is now supported along with the Ryzen 200 series, the old Instinct MI100 support is restored, and also there is now official support for the Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7700 XE graphics cards. The Radeon RX 7600 is nearly three years old, it's long overdue but nice finally seeing it officially mentioned for ROCm support.
The new hardware support in ROCm 7.12 includes:
- AMD Instinct MI100
- AMD Radeon RX 7700 XE
- AMD Radeon RX 7600
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 475
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 470
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 PRO 465
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450
- AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 440
- AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 435
- AMD Ryzen 9 270
- AMD Ryzen 7 260
- AMD Ryzen 7 250
- AMD Ryzen 5 240
- AMD Ryzen 5 230
- AMD Ryzen 5 220
- AMD Ryzen 3 210
ROCm 7.12 also adds support for Debian 12 with Instinct hardware, expanded GPU virtualization support with KVM SR-IOV for more RHEL releases on the MI350/MI355, expanded GPU partitioning support, and expanded AI ecosystem support. The broader AI ecosystem coverage includes PyTorch 2.10 support, JAX 0.8.0/0.8.2, vLLM 0.16 wheels, and other updates.
ROCm 7.12 also adds a Runfile installer to help with ROCm / AMD GPU driver deployment without relying on a native Linux package management systems. Great and long overdue.
More details on the many ROCm 7.12 tech preview changes can be found via the [3]ROCm documentation .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.2.1
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/ROCm-Core-SDK-7.9
[3] https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/