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119 mentions on Hacker News by 92 people: 15 stories, 104 comments · first 2016-04-27 · latest 2026-08-12

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  1. …issues that make it underperform ACO on some common operations on both gfx1100 and gfx1151 (see: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/6409 ) In general, for anyone just looking to run LLM models on an AMD card, I'd just recommend going with…
    comment by lhl · 2026-08-12 · in llama.cpp
  2. …scope of the work, and that it's not just trying to slam a lot of gpu cores onto huge motherboards. https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/6335
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2026-07-28 · in Can AMD Break the CUDA Moat? AMD Advancing AI 2026
  3. There was this ROCm bug I was watching for awhile: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/5706 - This is about the GPU clock remaining at max frequency, but that can drive the fan speed to increase. It doesn't happen with Vulkan backends, so…
    comment by theoli · 2026-04-23 · in Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
  4. Yes, Vulkan is currently faster due to some ROCm regressions: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/5805#issuecomment-414161... ROCm should be faster in the end, if they ever fix those issues.
    comment by naasking · 2026-04-02 · in Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
  5. …and so GPGPU driver support for consumer cards has been non-existing or terrible[1]. [1]: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/discussions/3893
    comment by magicalhippo · 2025-08-07 · in Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs
  6. This ticket, finally closed after being open for 2 years , is a pretty good micocosm of this problem: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1714 Users complaining that the docs don't even specify which cards work. But it goes deeper - a…
    comment by thrtythreeforty · 2025-04-01 · in Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?
  7. …(i.e. AMD-flavored SPIR-V) that'll hopefully result in a similar user experience like PTX [1]. [1]: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/3985#issuecomment-254616...
    comment by GZGavinZhao · 2025-03-23 · in RDNA 4's “Out-of-Order” Memory Accesses
  8. …feedback on this on github today... https://www.reddit.com/r/ROCm/comments/1i5aatx/rocm_feedback... https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/discussions/4276
    comment by latchkey · 2025-01-21 · in ROCm Device Support Wishlist
  9. …over this issue so that they could take them back to the mothership and figure out what's up... https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/4021 It takes a lot of coordination, across ourselves (with customers), our DC, AMD and Dell to make that…
    comment by latchkey · 2025-01-19 · in The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem
  10. Example ticket: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/2888
    comment by anticensor · 2024-12-07 · in Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (2008)
  11. Geohot (temporarily) giving up. https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/2198#issuecomment-157438... Sadly most of the real spicy Twitter messages are gone since he deleted all his content, but there was a really fun one where he went off on a…
    comment by FeepingCreature · 2024-12-04 · in Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
  12. It is open and they regularly merge PRs. https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
    comment by jjmarr · 2024-12-03 · in Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
  13. @Const-me according to this it should work, https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/2216
    comment by fazkan · 2024-10-02 · in AMD GPU Inference
  14. haven't tested it, but it should according to https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/2216 You just need to update the version check here https://github.com/slashml/amd_inference/blob/4b9ec069c4b2ac... feel free to open an issue, with the…
    comment by fazkan · 2024-10-02 · in AMD GPU Inference
  15. …Anything gfx9 or later is likely to be fine and gfx8 has a decent chance of working. The https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm source has build scripts these days. At least some of the internal developers largely work on consumer hardware. It's not…
    comment by JonChesterfield · 2024-06-17 · in An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about solving hard problems
  16. https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/2754 Wow and I thought that the latest generation of GPUs was better.
    comment by imtringued · 2024-04-22 · in Intel Gaudi 3 the New 128GB HBM2e AI Chip in the Wild
  17. At least the one I run into, which also says stuff with L2 and doorbells, is https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/2196 fwiw.
    comment by FeepingCreature · 2024-04-15 · in Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator
  18. …they declared those GPUs were no longer officially supported and they'd be closing the bug report: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1265
    comment by makomk · 2024-03-19 · in Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’
  19. …it with things like this (they now actually have a improved documentation, significant progress): https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1714 or this (HIP doesn't support L2 cache coherency, so disable GPU L2 cache)…
    comment by mnau · 2024-03-05 · in Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs
  20. …is culpable for the current situation, the community didn't end up here due to indifference. [1] https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/2198
    comment by nemothekid · 2024-02-25 · in Building a deep learning rig
  21. …answers in search come from Github and not AMD official documents "Radeon Open Compute Platform" https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1628 And they wonder why they are losing. Branding absolutely matters.
    comment by AndrewKemendo · 2024-02-12 · in AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
  22. https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1353 Bought in 2020. Stopped working in 2020. Not the latest, but in-production, advertised ROCm-capable, and what I could find during the Great GPU Shortage of 2020.
    comment by frognumber · 2023-12-25 · in AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators
  23. …stopped working a few months later when AMD decided to update ROCm to drop support for GFX8 GPUs: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1353 All the packages I was using (like Spacy) required later ROCm almost immediately. There was…
    comment by frognumber · 2023-12-25 · in AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators
  24. …it were made by Nvidia. Since they are made by AMD and not supported, you can grab them for 200$. https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/2308
    comment by KeplerBoy · 2023-12-25 · in AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators
  25. …But it isn't confidence inspiring when I go to see which cards are supported and I see this issue: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1714 With Nvidia cards, I know that if I buy any Nvidia card made in the last 10 years, CUDA code will…
    comment by thrtythreeforty · 2023-12-07 · in AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance
  26. Yep, did exactly that. IMO he threw a fit, even though AMD was working with him squashing bugs. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec...
    comment by throwitawayfam · 2023-10-06 · in AMD may get across the CUDA moat
  27. …this on the arch wiki? Nope This bug report[2] from 2021? Maybe I need to update my groups. [2]: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1411 $ ls -la /dev/kfd crw-rw-rw- 1 root render 237, 0 Sep 26 20:33 /dev/kfd $ sudo usermod…
    comment by alright2565 · 2023-09-27 · in ROCm is AMD's priority, executive says
  28. …coming out at a relatively nice clip[1], including a new release just a week or two ago[2]. [1]: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/releases [2]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-5.7-Released
    comment by mindcrime · 2023-09-26 · in ROCm is AMD's priority, executive says
  29. HMM is, I believe, a Linux feature. AMD added HMM support in ROCm 5.0 according to this: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/blob/develop/CHANG...
    comment by chesp3 · 2023-08-29 · in Simplifying GPU Application Development with HMM
  30. …work and has a massive codebase etc. Sure it's a cage but it's got golden bars and room service. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198 So I guess I'd say it's sticky until the technology settles. Steady-state, I think…
    comment by paulmd · 2023-08-24 · in Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024
  31. infamously, geohot encountered and documented a bunch of these kernel panics. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198 https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/06/07/a-div... they don't occur in amdgpu-pro proprietary…
    comment by paulmd · 2023-08-20 · in AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080
  32. …I sold my notebook as i hit a wall when trying rocm [1] Is there a list oft Wirkung apu's ? [1] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1587
    comment by delijati · 2023-08-17 · in AMD Ryzen APU turned into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run Stable Diffusion
  33. Last I heard he's abandoned working with AMD products. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec...
    comment by roboror · 2023-08-07 · in Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly
  34. …is working on that with tinygrad. Activity on the ROCm repo seems to have increased a lot recently: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/graphs/code-freque...
    comment by sva_ · 2023-08-07 · in Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly
  35. …I tried HIP via Blender, but it did not work for my 6600XT, it still used my CPU... [0] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/666#issueco... [1] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/915#discu...
    comment by Kelteseth · 2023-08-07 · in Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly
  36. …(but then I'm not a VC, so what do I know). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0rWJhv9jU [2] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec... [3] https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/166980346408248934...
    comment by ImprobableTruth · 2023-08-01 · in Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand
  37. [1] links to https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198 which has all the context (driver bugs, vowing to stop using AMD, Lisa Su's response that they're committed to fixing this stuff, a comment that it's fixed)
    comment by jorlow · 2023-08-01 · in Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand
  38. …//geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-t... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0rWJhv9jU https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec... https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/06/07/a-div... On a…
    comment by paulmd · 2023-07-07 · in Why Nvidia Keeps Winning
  39. You can get it to work now on Linux. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1880
    comment by collsni · 2023-07-03 · in AMD to Expand ROCm Support to Consumer RDNA 3 GPUs This Fall
  40. Its not supported, only navi 21 is supported, which is RX 6800+ https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1668
    comment by jacooper · 2023-06-24 · in Stability AI Launches Stable Diffusion XL 0.9
  41. …not all AMD GPUs have been tuned for CLBLast - this is something that AMD should be doing tbt: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2161 ) There is also a hipBLAS fork, which is slightly faster (~10% on my old Radeon VII) which…
    comment by lhl · 2023-06-14 · in AMD Expands AI Product Lineup with GPU-Only Instinct Mi300X with 192GB Memory
  42. Nope, he got a look at the absolute state of ROCm and realized he was wasting his time. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec... One might speculate he’s perhaps pivoting to Intel. They’re not well-developed in…
    comment by paulmd · 2023-06-14 · in AMD Expands AI Product Lineup with GPU-Only Instinct Mi300X with 192GB Memory
  43. …a shame AMD's Rocm is so bad even geohot gave up. it's examples don't even run without crashing. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec...
    comment by theaiquestion · 2023-06-13 · in Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration
  44. …and the demo apps to not crash the IOMMU on a supported OS/kernel/hardware configuration? Who knew. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec...
    comment by paulmd · 2023-06-05 · in Lisa Su saved AMD – Now she wants Nvidia's AI crown
  45. btw as far as anyone insisting "ROCm is good now"... see a practical example in action. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec...
    comment by paulmd · 2023-06-05 · in Lisa Su saved AMD – Now she wants Nvidia's AI crown
  46. …Either that or just simply incompetent. For example, just look at this issue and see the huge mess: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1714 With NVidia I can just buy any random GPU and expect it to work for everything I…
    comment by kouteiheika · 2023-05-22 · in Cloud GPU Resources and Pricing
  47. Big release notes https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/releases/tag/rocm-...
    comment by ProtonPower · 2023-05-02 · in AMD ROCm 5.5 Released
  48. 6800 is RDNA2, not RDNA3. The latter is still waiting for ROCm support 4 months post-launch: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1813
    comment by lhl · 2023-04-17 · in MiniGPT-4
  49. …not provide as much features) or running LLMs locally on Windows. After a bit of search, I found https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/666 , so chances are the situation might improve.
    comment by Klaster_1 · 2023-04-06 · in AMD and Jedec Are Collaborating on DDR5 MRDIMMs at 17,600 MT/S
  50. …that AMD keeps up the effort and fixes all the small and big issues that are still around... [0]: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1180
    comment by HansHamster · 2023-01-16 · in How Nvidia’s CUDA Monopoly in Machine Learning Is Breaking