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Re:What Is AMD ROCm? by my123 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @04:57PM (#29345359)
> Isn't 4.5 also the version, that kicked Vega64 to the curb?

ROCm 4.5 is the _last_ version to support the Vega10 ASIC (MI25, Vega56, Vega64).

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/#amd-instinct-mi25...

The next ROCm release after 4.5 is sometime in Q1 next year. So it's on planned death really soon.

It is transitioning to _that_ comical AMD "enabled in the codebase but not tested and not supported" state, rotting slowly like Polaris support did.

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Re:What Is AMD ROCm? by slavik81 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @06:49PM (#29346162)
The MI25 line predates when I joined AMD, so I don't know much about it. Were they for sale to the general public?

I was concerned about that as well, but I don't personally know anyone who owns a gfx900 card. I'm a little unclear on what impact it will have on the community.

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Re:What Is AMD ROCm? by my123 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @07:45PM (#29346515)
> Were they for sale to the general public?

The MI25 wasn't targeted at the general public, but it wasn't hard to buy one. And the customer products using that same die, Vega 56 and 64, were sold quite a bit.

What affected the community severely might be the combination of both GFX8 and gfx900 going away, leaving only MI50 (Vega20, also used in Radeon VII consumer variant) and no support (only unofficial enablement) for the later customer products. Because those went GFX10/Navi.

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Re:What Is AMD ROCm? by slavik81 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:12PM (#29347426)
Thank you. I found your post helpful for better understanding the situation.
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