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Does anyone know how the AMD consumer GPU support on Linux has been implemented? Must use something else than ROCm I assume? Because ROCm only supports the 7900 XTX on Linux[1], while on Windows[2] support is from RX 6600 and upwards.

[1]: https://rocblas.readthedocs.io/en/rocm-6.0.0/about/compatibi... [2]: https://rocblas.readthedocs.io/en/rocm-6.0.0/about/compatibi...

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The newest release, 6.0.2, supports a number of other cards[1] and in general people are able to get a lot more cards to work than are officially supported. My 7900 XT worked on 6.0.0 for instance.

[1]https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/lates...

I wouldn't read too much into support. It's more in terms of business/warranty/promises than what can actually do things

I've had a 6900XT since launch and this is the first I'm hearing "unsupported", having played with ROCM plenty over the years with Fedora Linux.

I think, at most, it's taken a couple key environment variables

How hard would it be for AMD just to document the levels of support of different cards the way NVIDIA does with their "compute capability" numbers ?!

I'm not sure what is worse from AMD - the ML software support they provide for their cards, or the utterly crap documentation.

How about one page documenting AMD's software stack compared to NVIDIA, one page documenting what ML frameworks support AMD cards, and another documenting "compute capability" type numbers to define the capabilities of different cards.

And almost looks like they're deliberately trying to not win any market share.

It's as if the CEO is mates with NVidias CEO and has an unwritten agreement not to try too hard to topple the applecart...

Oh wait... They're cousins!

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