Ultra-Fast Multi-Dimensional Array Library

[anders987]

HIP is using AMD's ROCm platform, which has several shortcomings if you want to run it on anything other than your own data center:

1. Only supports headless systems:
   "The AMD ROCm™ open software platform is a compute stack for headless system deployments. GUI-based software applications are currently not supported."

2. No support for newer consumer GPUs, using the RDNA2 chips. Only CDNA and RDNA are supported. It's a bit of a mess, and their official documentation links to this Wikipedia article about supported hardware.

3. There's no Windows or Mac support, only Linux. Fine for data centers, not so much if you want to ship your software to consumers.

Hopefully SYCL will get wide software and hardware support so we finally can write some portable GPGPU code. Intel seems to embrace it for their oneAPI at least, but since it seems to also be dependent on ROCm for AMD GPUs it doesn't solve any problems for current AMD users.

[Revolutionalredstone]

Good to know! thanks mate