I thought the point of something like Strix Halo was to avoid ROCm all together? AMDs strategy seems to have been to unify GPU/CPU memory then let people write their own libraries.
The industry looks like it's started to move towards Vulkan. If AMD cards have figured out how to reliably run compute shaders without locking up (never a given in my experience, but that was some time ago) then there shouldn't be a reason to use speciality APIs or software written by AMD outside of drivers.
ROCm was always a bit problematic, but the issue was if AMD card's weren't good enough for AMD engineers to reliably support tensor multiplication then there was no way anyone else was going to be able to do it. It isn't like anyone is confused about multiplying matricies together, it isn't for everyone but the naive algorithm is a core undergrad topic and the advanced algorithms surely aren't that crazy to implement. It was never a library problem.
The industry looks like it's started to move towards Vulkan. If AMD cards have figured out how to reliably run compute shaders without locking up (never a given in my experience, but that was some time ago) then there shouldn't be a reason to use speciality APIs or software written by AMD outside of drivers.
ROCm was always a bit problematic, but the issue was if AMD card's weren't good enough for AMD engineers to reliably support tensor multiplication then there was no way anyone else was going to be able to do it. It isn't like anyone is confused about multiplying matricies together, it isn't for everyone but the naive algorithm is a core undergrad topic and the advanced algorithms surely aren't that crazy to implement. It was never a library problem.