SPIR-V on ROCm: A Portable IR for AMD GPUs

(rocm.blogs.amd.com)

5 points | by matt_d 14 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • cherryteastain 13 hours ago ago

    Really big news for AMD, lack of a PTX analogue for ROCm was so painful that it set back adoption of AMD GPUs for GPGPU tasks at least a decade. I think things are better now, but my 6900XT took over a year to get Pytorch support. Many cards, including ones branded as "Pro", never got support.

    This was an obvious move that I asked AMD reps at conferences about explicitly, to which I received some puzzled looks. I guess they were cooking on it behind the scenes.

  • nolist_policy 12 hours ago ago

    Very nice, I guess my next GPU will be a AMD.