File 002 · Local Intelligence

Record 039 · Runtimes · 2016

16.39.U

ROCm

AMD

ROCm (2016) by AMD

AMD's compute stack — the reason a 7900 XTX can run a model without NVIDIA.

CUDA, if you brought an AMD card.

ROCm's rocky years still matter: llama.cpp, vLLM, and PyTorch-on-AMD are how non-NVIDIA local boxes exist. Strix Halo depends on this path.

Opened local GPU inference off the green team.

Filed notes

  • Open GPU compute for AMD
  • PyTorch/ROCm
  • llama.cpp HIP

SIC

7372

Prepackaged Software

NAICS

511210

Software Publishers

Official

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