As expected after noting this morning that ROCm 7.1 release preparations were underway, ROCm 7.1 is now officially released as the newest step-forward for this open-source GPU compute stack for Radeon and Instinct hardware.
ROCm 7.1 is coming just one and a half months after the major ROCm 7.0 release. ROCm 7.1 continues making a lot of enhancements around the AMD Instinct MI350X and MI355X support, including numerous performance optimizations and new features. Plus other performance improvements not specific to the Instinct MI350 series. There is also expanded Linux distribution coverage, HIP improvements for better compatibility against NVIDIA CUDA interfaces, and various other changes.
Some of the ROCm 7.1 highlights include:
– AMD Instinct MI350X and MI355X accelerator support is now available on Debian 13 with the AMDGPU DKMS packaged kernel driver.
– The AMD Instinct MI325X is now officially supported on RHEL 10, SLES 15 SP7, Debian 12, Debian 13, Oracle Linux 9, and Oracle Linux 10.
– The old AMD Instinct MI100 is officially supported now on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7.
– ROCm 7.1 guest OS support for RHEL 10.0 using KVM SR-IOV with the AMD Instinct MI350X/MI355X hardware.
– AMD SMI now allows setting a power cap in 1VF for the Instinct MI300X.
– Various virtualization improvements for the AMD Instinct MI350 series.
– New HIP runtime APIs to enhance compatibility with NVIDIA CUDA. AMD’s HIP can now also support nested tile partitioning within cooperative groups as one of the improvements for better matching CUDA functionality. The HIP module loading latency has also been lowered.
– Performance improvements to hipBLASLt, including a number of kernel optimizations for the Instinct MI350 series.
– Significant performance enhancements to hipSPARSELt.
– RCCL has enhanced single-node performance for the Instinct MI350 series.
– Various ROCm profiler updates.
– Support for TensorFlow 2.20 and ONNX RT 1.23.1.
More details and downloads for today’s ROCm 7.1 release via rocm.docs.amd.com.
