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Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by Vvector on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:56AM (#24433485)
> Navi just began to compile a week or two ago. Still 'unsupported', but its slowly gaining features.

14 months after release, still unsupported. AMD needs to step up to the plate if they want to be seriously considered in the AI world.

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Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by dragontamer on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:02PM (#24433558)
Its pretty clear what's going on: AMD doesn't have the resources to support all the GPUs they release on ROCm. They focus on the "MI" line of cards, which have similarities to the consumer GPUs. (Ex: Rx Fury is very similar to MI8).

Because MI8 and Rx Fury have similarities, AMD gives ROCm support to both. Ditto with MI25 and Vega, and MI6 and Rx 580.

EDIT: With "Navi" gaining features in ROCm repos, my bet is that a new MI-card based on RDNA2 might be coming out soon. Maybe its Arcturus (the Exascale GPU for the Frontier supercomputer).

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Re:AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentati... by t-vi on Monday September 14, 2020 @09:35AM (#24469919)
No, Arcturus is CDNA (the Compute rather than Render architecture). Still with the Radeon VII EOL it would be good if they had a consumerish ROCm card, so RDNA2-support would be great.
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