Re: Dropping gfx803 support (Was: First draft of ROCm 6.1 Release Plan)
Hi Cory,
On 2024-09-09 20:16, Cordell Bloor wrote:
> It looks like we will lose the last vestiges of upstream gfx803 support in the update to ROCm 6 [...]
> It's unfortunate, as there is still a lot of gfx803 hardware out in the
> wild. The reality is, though, that neither AMD nor the broader community
> have taken the steps needed to keep this architecture alive. As the
> support for this hardware is broken and nobody has stepped up to fix it,
> I think we should drop gfx803 from the library builds when we upgrade to
> ROCm 6.1.
While it's sad to see functional hardware EOL'ed, I'm not so sure this
hardware would be much use for contemporary workloads anyway.
To be useful, anything "AI" nowadays needs more VRAM than these devices
have, and performance/watt is also pretty far behind.
Still, I guess that Blender and other utilities could have made use of
even these devices.
On 2024-09-10 08:41, Cordell Bloor wrote:
> Upon further inspection, this might be limited to OpenCL. I suppose
> the easy thing to do is to continue building for gfx803 as usual, and
> if the continuous integration system indicates that gfx803 is (even
> more) broken after we upgrade, we can decide what to do about it at
> that time.
Sure, let's try that.
Best,
Christian
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