
AMD released ROCm 6.4, bringing along several improvements, including framework enhancements, broader OS support, and enhancements to several performance and profiling tools. What it continues to lack is enablement for RDNA 4 GPUs, which may discourage developers from shifting to AMD's latest architecture.
When RDNA 4 hit shelves last month, day-one ROCm compatibility was highly anticipated, as was teased by AMD's VP of AI Software. ROCm is AMD's open-source GPU programming platform, rivaling Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem to power HPC and AI applications. ROCm is chiefly focused on AMD's MI Instinct Accelerators and its prosumer Radeon Pro family, but support has slowly been trickling down to consumer-grade Radeon GPUs, just not as fast as CUDA.