AMD releases ROCm 6.4, official RDNA4 support still pending

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AMD ROCm 6.4 released

No sign of RDNA4 support yet. 



Phoronix reports that AMD has released a new version of ROCm (Radeon Open Compute Platform), but surprisingly, there is no official support for RDNA4.

Unofficially, users report that they have had success running the new library on the Radeon RX 9070 series.

The ROCm platform is designed for computing acceleration for Radeon GPUs. It is a set of libraries and frameworks for developers and users who own a supported graphics card.

The latest update (6.4) includes several changes, such as:

• Compatibility between the ROCm user-space software and the AMDKFD kernel mode drivers has been improved to allow for better compatibility across newer and older kernel versions. AMD has expanded their internal testing to allow for more user/kernel combinations.
  
• PyTorch 2.5 and PyTorch 2.6 support have been added.
  
• The Megatron-LM Framework for ROCm has added support for new fused kernels: Fused Attention (QKV), Fused Layer Norm, and Fused ROPE.
  
• VP9 support has been added to rocDecode and rocPyDecode. Bitstream reader support has also been added for rocDecode.
  
• New modules for the ROCm Data Center Tool have been introduced.
  
• Official support for Oracle Linux 9, Oracle’s RHEL9 derivative, has been added.
  
• Official support for the Radeon PRO W7800 48GB GPU has been included.
  

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