What is ROCm?

What is ROCm?#

ROCm is the AMD open software stack for GPU‑accelerated computing. It provides the tools needed to program AMD GPUs — including runtimes, compilers, performance and system utilities, and optimized math and compute libraries. The wider ROCm ecosystem includes ROCm‑enabled HPC applications and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.

ROCm 7.14.0 is built through the TheRock, AMD’s open build and release system. TheRock replaces the previous monolithic release process with a modular workflow that makes ROCm components easier to build, integrate, and distribute. See the release notes for more information.

ROCm Core SDK#

The ROCm Core SDK provides the foundational components that power the ROCm ecosystem — runtimes, compilers, math libraries, and system utilities for GPGPU computing. See ROCm Core SDK components for more information.

ROCm™ Core SDK
Math and compute libraries
Deep learning and GPU compute kernels:
Composable Kernel, MIOpen, rocWMMA, hipDNN (beta)
BLAS dense and sparse libraries:
hipBLAS, hipBLASLt, hipSOLVER, hipSPARSE, hipSPARSELt, rocBLAS, rocSOLVER, rocSPARSE
Kernel primitives:
hipCUB, rocPRIM, rocThrust
Other math:
hipFFT, hipRAND, rocFFT, rocRAND
Communication libraries
RCCL, rocSHMEM
Media libraries
rocDecode, rocJPEG
Storage libraries
hipFile
Runtime and compilers
HIP, HIPIFY, LLVM, SPIRV-LLVM-Translator
Profiling and debugging tools
Profilers:
ROCm Compute Profiler (rocprofiler-compute), ROCm Systems Profiler (rocprofiler-systems), ROCprofiler-SDK
Debuggers:
ROCdbgapi, ROCm Debugger (ROCgdb), ROCr Debug Agent,
Control and monitoring tools
AMD SMI, hipinfo, ROCm Data Center Tool (RDC), rocminfo

ROCm Extras#

ROCm Extra components are supplementary tools for benchmarking, validating, and managing ROCm deployments. These tools are not required for GPU application development but are useful for verifying hardware health, measuring system performance, and managing GPU fleets. For more information, see ROCm Extra components.

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