AMD is perhaps finally expanding ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) support on Windows after a recent statement by Anush Elangovan, AMD’s Vice President of AI Software. Although information is still limited, Elangovan’s reaction to a community petition indicates that the company is receptive to extending ROCm support to additional Radeon GPUs on Windows, a feature developers and AI researchers have long been asking for.
Current State of ROCm on Windows
AMD first brought ROCm support for Windows 10 and 11 with version 5.5.1. Yet since October, support has only encompassed some GPUs, such as the Instinct series and some high-end Radeon models including the RX 7900 XT and XTX.
Currently, the most recent ROCm release is version 6.2.4, but it doesn’t support AMD’s more recently launched Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs.
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Challenges and Potential Expansion
One of the biggest issues with ROCm on Windows is the absence of across-the-board GPU support. On Linux, any RDNA 2 GPU will run ROCm relatively easily, but Windows users have a much more limited choice.
If AMD does make good on wider Windows support, it would enable older RDNA and RDNA 2 GPUs to run deep-learning workloads, while RDNA 4-based GPUs would see access to advanced AI workloads.
Although AMD has not yet issued a formal statement, a broader deployment of ROCm on Windows could be a revolution for developers building AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing applications. It might still take some time, though, before full support materializes.
Other Developments in AMD’s AI Strategy
In other news, AMD has also pledged to donate two MI300X AI accelerator boxes to tinygrad, an open-source machine learning effort, another advance in AMD’s AI efforts.
Whether these actions represent a concerted push into AI software development remains to be observed, but the company’s continued engagement bodes for tougher competition in the AI and GPU computing space in the near term.
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