AMD originally released a ROCm 7.0 preview build back in May as it works to align their HIP API more closely with NVIDIA’s CUDA. Last month was the big ROCm 7.0 preview announcement form AMD’s Advancing AI Day in San Jose while this week is another new 7.0 preview build focused on further testing of the ROCm 7.0 HIP changes.
Tagged this morning was the newest ROCm build that uses a ROCm 6.4.1 base but incorporating all of the latest HIP Runtime changes planned for ROCm 7.0. Due to breakage with HIP interfaces planned from ROCm 7.0, these early builds are aimed for more developer testing and compatibility work ahead of the ROCm 7.0 stable release due out later in 2025.
For developers making extensive use of HIP as AMD’s compatibility layer to help in moving CUDA codebases to AMD GPU/accelerator support, see this latest GitHub tag for the newest HIP Runtime bits planned for ROCm 7.0.
It doesn’t appear that today’s ROCm preview update has any other changes besides updates to the HIP Runtime.
