ROCm Version History
This file contains archived version history information for the ROCm project
Current ROCm Version: 3.3
New features and enhancements in ROCm v3.2
The AMD ROCm v3.2 release was not productized.
New features and enhancements in ROCm v3.1
Change in ROCm Installation Directory Structure
A fresh installation of the ROCm toolkit installs the packages in the /opt/rocm- folder. Previously, ROCm toolkit packages were installed in the /opt/rocm folder.
Reliability, Accessibility, and Serviceability Support for Vega 7nm
The Reliability, Accessibility, and Serviceability (RAS) support for Vega7nm is now available.
SLURM Support for AMD GPU
SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is an open source, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for large and small Linux clusters.
New features and enhancements in ROCm v3.0
Support for CentOS RHEL v7.7
Support is extended for CentOS/RHEL v7.7 in the ROCm v3.0 release. For more information about the CentOS/RHEL v7.7 release, see:
CentOS/RHEL
Initial distribution of AOMP 0.7-5 in ROCm v3.0
The code base for this release of AOMP is the Clang/LLVM 9.0 sources as of October 8th, 2019. The LLVM-project branch used to build this release is AOMP-191008. It is now locked. With this release, an artifact tarball of the entire source tree is created. This tree includes a Makefile in the root directory used to build AOMP from the release tarball. You can use Spack to build AOMP from this source tarball or build manually without Spack.
For more information about AOMP 0.7-5, see: AOMP
Fast Fourier Transform Updates
The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is an efficient algorithm for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform. Fast Fourier transforms are used in signal processing, image processing, and many other areas. The following real FFT performance change is made in the ROCm v3.0 release:
• Implement efficient real/complex 2D transforms for even lengths.
Other improvements:
• More 2D test coverage sizes.
• Fix buffer allocation error for large 1D transforms.
• C++ compatibility improvements.
MemCopy Enhancement for rocProf
In the v3.0 release, the rocProf tool is enhanced with an additional capability to dump asynchronous GPU memcopy information into a .csv file. You can use the '-hsa-trace' option to create the results_mcopy.csv file.
Future enhancements will include column labels.
New features and enhancements in ROCm v2.10
rocBLAS Support for Complex GEMM
The rocBLAS library is a gpu-accelerated implementation of the standard Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (BLAS). rocBLAS is designed to enable you to develop algorithms, including high performance computing, image analysis, and machine learning.
In the AMD ROCm release v2.10, support is extended to the General Matrix Multiply (GEMM) routine for multiple small matrices processed simultaneously for rocBLAS in AMD Radeon Instinct MI50. Both single and double precision, CGEMM and ZGEMM, are now supported in rocBLAS.
Support for SLES 15 SP1
In the AMD ROCm v2.10 release, support is added for SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP1. SLES is a modular operating system for both multimodal and traditional IT.
Code Marker Support for rocProfiler and rocTracer Libraries
Code markers provide the external correlation ID for the calling thread. This function indicates that the calling thread is entering and leaving an external API region.
New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.9
Initial release for Radeon Augmentation Library(RALI)
The AMD Radeon Augmentation Library (RALI) is designed to efficiently decode and process images from a variety of storage formats and modify them through a processing graph programmable by the user. RALI currently provides C API.
Quantization in MIGraphX v0.4
MIGraphX 0.4 introduces support for fp16 and int8 quantization. For additional details, as well as other new MIGraphX features, see MIGraphX documentation.
rocSparse csrgemm
csrgemm enables the user to perform matrix-matrix multiplication with two sparse matrices in CSR format.
Singularity Support
ROCm 2.9 adds support for Singularity container version 2.5.2.
Initial release of rocTX
ROCm 2.9 introduces rocTX, which provides a C API for code markup for performance profiling. This initial release of rocTX supports annotation of code ranges and ASCII markers. For an example, see this code.
Added support for Ubuntu 18.04.3
Ubuntu 18.04.3 is now supported in ROCm 2.9.
New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.8
Support for NCCL2.4.8 API
Implements ncclCommAbort() and ncclCommGetAsyncError() to match the NCCL 2.4.x API
New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.7.2
This release is a hotfix for ROCm release 2.7.
Issues fixed in ROCm 2.7.2
A defect in upgrades from older ROCm releases has been fixed.
rocprofiler --hiptrace and --hsatrace fails to load roctracer library
In ROCm 2.7.2, rocprofiler --hiptrace and --hsatrace fails to load roctracer library defect has been fixed.
To generate traces, please provide directory path also using the parameter: -d <$directoryPath> for example:
/opt/rocm/bin/rocprof --hsa-trace -d $PWD/traces /opt/rocm/hip/samples/0_Intro/bit_extract/bit_extract
All traces and results will be saved under $PWD/traces path
Upgrading from ROCm 2.7 to 2.7.2
To upgrade, please remove 2.7 completely as specified for ubuntu or for centos/rhel, and install 2.7.2 as per instructions install instructions
Other notes
To use rocprofiler features, the following steps need to be completed before using rocprofiler:
Step-1: Install roctracer
Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04:
sudo apt install roctracer-dev
CentOS/RHEL 7.6:
sudo yum install roctracer-dev
Step-2: Add /opt/rocm/roctracer/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.7
[rocFFT] Real FFT Functional
Improved real/complex 1D even-length transforms of unit stride. Performance improvements of up to 4.5x are observed. Large problem sizes should see approximately 2x.
rocRand Enhancements and Optimizations
- Added support for new datatypes: uchar, ushort, half.
- Improved performance on "Vega 7nm" chips, such as on the Radeon Instinct MI50
- mtgp32 uniform double performance changes due generation algorithm standardization. Better quality random numbers now generated with 30% decrease in performance
- Up to 5% performance improvements for other algorithms
RAS
Added support for RAS on Radeon Instinct MI50, including:
- Memory error detection
- Memory error detection counter
ROCm-SMI enhancements
Added ROCm-SMI CLI and LIB support for FW version, compute running processes, utilization rates, utilization counter, link error counter, and unique ID.
New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.6
ROCmInfo enhancements
ROCmInfo was extended to do the following:
For ROCr API call errors including initialization determine if the error could be explained by:
- ROCk (driver) is not loaded / available
- User does not have membership in appropriate group - "video"
- If not above print the error string that is mapped to the returned error code
- If no error string is available, print the error code in hex
Thrust - Functional Support on Vega20
ROCm2.6 contains the first official release of rocThrust and hipCUB. rocThrust is a port of thrust, a parallel algorithm library. hipCUB is a port of CUB, a reusable software component library. Thrust/CUB has been ported to the HIP/ROCm platform to use the rocPRIM library. The HIP ported library works on HIP/ROCm platforms.
Note: rocThrust and hipCUB library replaces https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/thrust (hip-thrust), i.e. hip-thrust has been separated into two libraries, rocThrust and hipCUB. Existing hip-thrust users are encouraged to port their code to rocThrust and/or hipCUB. Hip-thrust will be removed from official distribution later this year.
MIGraphX v0.3
MIGraphX optimizer adds support to read models frozen from Tensorflow framework. Further details and an example usage at https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/AMDMIGraphX/wiki/Getting-started:-using-the-new-features-of-MIGraphX-0.3
MIOpen 2.0
- This release contains several new features including an immediate mode for selecting convolutions, bfloat16 support, new layers, modes, and algorithms.
- MIOpenDriver, a tool for benchmarking and developing kernels is now shipped with MIOpen.
BFloat16 now supported in HIP requires an updated rocBLAS as a GEMM backend.
- Immediate mode API now provides the ability to quickly obtain a convolution kernel.
- MIOpen now contains HIP source kernels and implements the ImplicitGEMM kernels. This is a new feature and is currently disabled by default. Use the environmental variable "MIOPEN_DEBUG_CONV_IMPLICIT_GEMM=1" to activation this feature. ImplicitGEMM requires an up to date HIP version of at least 1.5.9211.
- A new "loss" catagory of layers has been added, of which, CTC loss is the first. See the API reference for more details.
2.0 is the last release of active support for gfx803 architectures. In future releases, MIOpen will not actively debug and develop new features specifically for gfx803.
- System Find-Db in memory cache is disabled by default. Please see build instructions to enable this feature.
Additional documentation can be found here: https://rocmsoftwareplatform.github.io/MIOpen/doc/html/
Bloat16 software support in rocBLAS/Tensile
Added mixed precision bfloat16/IEEE f32 to gemm_ex. The input and output matrices are bfloat16. All arithmetic is in IEEE f32.
AMD Infinity Fabric™ Link enablement
The ability to connect four Radeon Instinct MI60 or Radeon Instinct MI50 boards in two hives or two Radeon Instinct MI60 or Radeon Instinct MI50 boards in four hives via AMD Infinity Fabric™ Link GPU interconnect technology has been added.
ROCm-smi features and bug fixes
- mGPU & Vendor check
- Fix clock printout if DPM is disabled
- Fix finding marketing info on CentOS
- Clarify some error messages
ROCm-smi-lib enhancements
- Documentation updates
- Improvements to *name_get functions
RCCL2 Enablement
RCCL2 supports collectives intranode communication using PCIe, Infinity Fabric™, and pinned host memory, as well as internode communication using Ethernet (TCP/IP sockets) and Infiniband/RoCE (Infiniband Verbs). Note: For Infiniband/RoCE, RDMA is not currently supported.
rocFFT enhancements
- Added: Debian package with FFT test, benchmark, and sample programs
- Improved: hipFFT interfaces
- Improved: rocFFT CPU reference code, plan generation code and logging code
New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.5
UCX 1.6 support
Support for UCX version 1.6 has been added.
BFloat16 GEMM in rocBLAS/Tensile
Software support for BFloat16 on Radeon Instinct MI50, MI60 has been added. This includes:
- Mixed precision GEMM with BFloat16 input and output matrices, and all arithmetic in IEEE32 bit
- Input matrix values are converted from BFloat16 to IEEE32 bit, all arithmetic and accumulation is IEEE32 bit. Output values are rounded from IEEE32 bit to BFloat16
- Accuracy should be correct to 0.5 ULP
ROCm-SMI enhancements
CLI support for querying the memory size, driver version, and firmware version has been added to ROCm-smi.
[PyTorch] multi-GPU functional support (CPU aggregation/Data Parallel)
Multi-GPU support is enabled in PyTorch using Dataparallel path for versions of PyTorch built using the 06c8aa7a3bbd91cda2fd6255ec82aad21fa1c0d5 commit or later.
rocSparse optimization on Radeon Instinct MI50 and MI60
This release includes performance optimizations for csrsv routines in the rocSparse library.
[Thrust] Preview
Preview release for early adopters. rocThrust is a port of thrust, a parallel algorithm library. Thrust has been ported to the HIP/ROCm platform to use the rocPRIM library. The HIP ported library works on HIP/ROCm platforms.
Note: This library will replace https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/thrust in a future release. The package for rocThrust (this library) currently conflicts with version 2.5 package of thrust. They should not be installed together.
Support overlapping kernel execution in same HIP stream
HIP API has been enhanced to allow independent kernels to run in parallel on the same stream.
AMD Infinity Fabric™ Link enablement
The ability to connect four Radeon Instinct MI60 or Radeon Instinct MI50 boards in one hive via AMD Infinity Fabric™ Link GPU interconnect technology has been added.
New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.4
TensorFlow 2.0 support
ROCm 2.4 includes the enhanced compilation toolchain and a set of bug fixes to support TensorFlow 2.0 features natively
AMD Infinity Fabric™ Link enablement
ROCm 2.4 adds support to connect two Radeon Instinct MI60 or Radeon Instinct MI50 boards via AMD Infinity Fabric™ Link GPU interconnect technology.
New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.3
Mem usage per GPU
Per GPU memory usage is added to rocm-smi.
Display information regarding used/total bytes for VRAM, visible VRAM and GTT, via the --showmeminfo flag
MIVisionX, v1.1 - ONNX
ONNX parser changes to adjust to new file formats
MIGraphX, v0.2
MIGraphX 0.2 supports the following new features:
- New Python API
- Support for additional ONNX operators and fixes that now enable a large set of Imagenet models
- Support for RNN Operators
- Support for multi-stream Execution
- [Experimental] Support for Tensorflow frozen protobuf files
See: Getting-started:-using-the-new-features-of-MIGraphX-0.2 for more details
MIOpen, v1.8 - 3d convolutions and int8
- This release contains full 3-D convolution support and int8 support for inference.
- Additionally, there are major updates in the performance database for major models including those found in Torchvision.
See: MIOpen releases
Caffe2 - mGPU support
Multi-gpu support is enabled for Caffe2.
rocTracer library, ROCm tracing API for collecting runtimes API and asynchronous GPU activity traces
HIP/HCC domains support is introduced in rocTracer library.
BLAS - Int8 GEMM performance, Int8 functional and performance
Introduces support and performance optimizations for Int8 GEMM, implements TRSV support, and includes improvements and optimizations with Tensile.
Prioritized L1/L2/L3 BLAS (functional)
Functional implementation of BLAS L1/L2/L3 functions
BLAS - tensile optimization
Improvements and optimizations with tensile
MIOpen Int8 support
Support for int8
New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.2
rocSparse Optimization on Vega20
Cache usage optimizations for csrsv (sparse triangular solve), coomv
(SpMV in COO format) and ellmv (SpMV in ELL format) are available.
DGEMM and DTRSM Optimization
Improved DGEMM performance for reduced matrix sizes (k=384, k=256)
Caffe2
Added support for multi-GPU training
New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.1
RocTracer v1.0 preview release – 'rocprof' HSA runtime tracing and statistics support -
Supports HSA API tracing and HSA asynchronous GPU activity including kernels execution and memory copy
Improvements to ROCM-SMI tool -
Added support to show real-time PCIe bandwidth usage via the -b/--showbw flag
DGEMM Optimizations -
Improved DGEMM performance for large square and reduced matrix sizes (k=384, k=256)
New features and enhancements in ROCm 2.0
Adds support for RHEL 7.6 / CentOS 7.6 and Ubuntu 18.04.1
Adds support for Vega 7nm, Polaris 12 GPUs
Introduces MIVisionX
- A comprehensive computer vision and machine intelligence libraries, utilities and applications bundled into a single toolkit.
Improvements to ROCm Libraries
- rocSPARSE & hipSPARSE
- rocBLAS with improved DGEMM efficiency on Vega 7nm
MIOpen
- This release contains general bug fixes and an updated performance database
- Group convolutions backwards weights performance has been improved
- RNNs now support fp16
Tensorflow multi-gpu and Tensorflow FP16 support for Vega 7nm
- TensorFlow v1.12 is enabled with fp16 support
PyTorch/Caffe2 with Vega 7nm Support
- fp16 support is enabled
- Several bug fixes and performance enhancements
- Known Issue: breaking changes are introduced in ROCm 2.0 which are not addressed upstream yet. Meanwhile, please continue to use ROCm fork at https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/pytorch
Improvements to ROCProfiler tool
Support for hipStreamCreateWithPriority
- Creates a stream with the specified priority. It creates a stream on which enqueued kernels have a different priority for execution compared to kernels enqueued on normal priority streams. The priority could be higher or lower than normal priority streams.
OpenCL 2.0 support
- ROCm 2.0 introduces full support for kernels written in the OpenCL 2.0 C language on certain devices and systems. Applications can detect this support by calling the “clGetDeviceInfo” query function with “parame_name” argument set to “CL_DEVICE_OPENCL_C_VERSION”. In order to make use of OpenCL 2.0 C language features, the application must include the option “-cl-std=CL2.0” in options passed to the runtime API calls responsible for compiling or building device programs. The complete specification for the OpenCL 2.0 C language can be obtained using the following link: https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenCL/specs/opencl-2.0-openclc.pdf
Improved Virtual Addressing (48 bit VA) management for Vega 10 and later GPUs
- Fixes Clang AddressSanitizer and potentially other 3rd-party memory debugging tools with ROCm
- Small performance improvement on workloads that do a lot of memory management
- Removes virtual address space limitations on systems with more VRAM than system memory
Kubernetes support
New features and enhancements in ROCm 1.9.2
RDMA(MPI) support on Vega 7nm
- Support ROCnRDMA based on Mellanox InfiniBand
Improvements to HCC
- Improved link time optimization
Improvements to ROCProfiler tool
- General bug fixes and implemented versioning APIs
New features and enhancements in ROCm 1.9.2
RDMA(MPI) support on Vega 7nm
- Support ROCnRDMA based on Mellanox InfiniBand
Improvements to HCC
- Improved link time optimization
Improvements to ROCProfiler tool
- General bug fixes and implemented versioning APIs
Critical bug fixes
New features and enhancements in ROCm 1.9.1
Added DPM support to Vega 7nm
- Dynamic Power Management feature is enabled on Vega 7nm.
Fix for 'ROCm profiling' that used to fail with a “Version mismatch between HSA runtime and libhsa-runtime-tools64.so.1” error
New features and enhancements in ROCm 1.9.0
Preview for Vega 7nm
- Enables developer preview support for Vega 7nm
System Management Interface
- Adds support for the ROCm SMI (System Management Interface) library, which provides monitoring and management capabilities for AMD GPUs.
Improvements to HIP/HCC
- Support for gfx906
- Added deprecation warning for C++AMP. This will be the last version of HCC supporting C++AMP.
- Improved optimization for global address space pointers passing into a GPU kernel
- Fixed several race conditions in the HCC runtime
- Performance tuning to the unpinned copy engine
- Several codegen enhancement fixes in the compiler backend
Preview for rocprof Profiling Tool
Developer preview (alpha) of profiling tool rocProfiler. It includes a command-line front-end, rpl_run.sh, which enables:
- Cmd-line tool for dumping public per kernel perf-counters/metrics and kernel timestamps
- Input file with counters list and kernels selecting parameters
- Multiple counters groups and app runs supported
- Output results in CSV format
The tool can be installed from the rocprofiler-dev package. It will be installed into: /opt/rocm/bin/rpl_run.sh
Preview for rocr Debug Agent rocr_debug_agent
The ROCr Debug Agent is a library that can be loaded by ROCm Platform Runtime to provide the following functionality:
- Print the state for wavefronts that report memory violation or upon executing a "s_trap 2" instruction.
- Allows SIGINT (
ctrl c) or SIGTERM (kill -15) to print wavefront state of aborted GPU dispatches.
- It is enabled on Vega10 GPUs on ROCm1.9.
The ROCm1.9 release will install the ROCr Debug Agent library at /opt/rocm/lib/librocr_debug_agent64.so
New distribution support
- Binary package support for Ubuntu 18.04
ROCm 1.9 is ABI compatible with KFD in upstream Linux kernels.
Upstream Linux kernels support the following GPUs in these releases:
4.17: Fiji, Polaris 10, Polaris 11
4.18: Fiji, Polaris 10, Polaris 11, Vega10
Some ROCm features are not available in the upstream KFD:
- More system memory available to ROCm applications
- Interoperability between graphics and compute
- RDMA
- IPC
To try ROCm with an upstream kernel, install ROCm as normal, but do not install the rock-dkms package. Also add a udev rule to control /dev/kfd permissions:
echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="kfd", KERNEL=="kfd", TAG+="uaccess", GROUP="video"' | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/70-kfd.rules
New features as of ROCm 1.8.3
- ROCm 1.8.3 is a minor update meant to fix compatibility issues on Ubuntu releases running kernel 4.15.0-33
New features as of ROCm 1.8
DKMS driver installation
- Debian packages are provided for DKMS on Ubuntu
- RPM packages are provided for CentOS/RHEL 7.4 and 7.5 support
- See the ROCT-Thunk-Interface and ROCK-Kernel-Driver for additional documentation on driver setup
New distribution support
- Binary package support for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04
- Binary package support for CentOS 7.4 and 7.5
- Binary package support for RHEL 7.4 and 7.5
Improved OpenMPI via UCX support
- UCX support for OpenMPI
- ROCm RDMA
New Features as of ROCm 1.7
DKMS driver installation
- New driver installation uses Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS)
- Only amdkfd and amdgpu kernel modules are installed to support AMD hardware
- Currently only Debian packages are provided for DKMS (no Fedora suport available)
- See the ROCT-Thunk-Interface and ROCK-Kernel-Driver for additional documentation on driver setup
New Features as of ROCm 1.5
Developer preview of the new OpenCL 1.2 compatible language runtime and compiler
- OpenCL 2.0 compatible kernel language support with OpenCL 1.2 compatible
runtime
- Supports offline ahead of time compilation today;
during the Beta phase we will add in-process/in-memory compilation.
Binary Package support for Ubuntu 16.04
Binary Package support for Fedora 24 is not currently available
Dropping binary package support for Ubuntu 14.04, Fedora 23
IPC support
