While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as well as bringing various fixes and enhancements to the various libraries and components making up this AMD GPU compute ecosystem stack.
Exciting with ROCm 6.4.2 on the consumer side is adding official support for the Radeon RX 7700 XT. Rather than just supporting the Radeon RX 7800/7900 series officially, the RDNA3-based Radeon RX 7700 XT is now officially supported with today’s ROCm release. The Radeon RX 7700 XT support on ROCm is validated on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6. Nice to see the AMD RDNA3 support range expand albeit unfortunate it’s been nearly two years since the Radeon RX 7700 XT launch.
For a look at the currently supported Radeon consumer GPUs by ROCm:
The ROCm Comoute Profiler now uses AMD SMI directly rather than ROCm SMI. AMD SMI is the successor to ROCm SMI with the latter now being considered deprecated. The ROCm Compute Profiler also added support for 8-bit floating point (FP8) metrics with the AMD Instinct MI300 series.
The AMD SMI code with ROCm 6.4.2 is also now able to report the graphics card board voltage.
The rocSOLVER meanwhile improved the performance of Eigen solvers and singular value decomposition (SVD).
ROCm 6.4.2 for the ROCm Offline Installer Creator now supports Oracle Linux 8.10, Oracle Linux 9.6, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7. The Offline Installer Creator also supports new amd-smi / rocdecode / rocjpeg / rdc package options. Debian 12 is also now supported by the ROCm Runfile Installer by using the Ubuntu 22.04 path.
ROCm 6.4.2 also brings documentation improvements, including new/updated tutorials for AI developers.
More details on today’s ROCm 6.4.2 release via rocm.docs.amd.com.
