System requirements (Linux)#

Applies to Linux

2024-01-17

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Supported GPUs#

The following table shows the supported GPUs for Instinct™, Radeon Pro™ and Radeon™ GPUs. If a GPU is not listed on this table, It’s not officially supported by AMD.

GPU

Architecture

LLVM target

Support

AMD Instinct™ MI300X

CDNA3

gfx942

✅

AMD Instinct™ MI300A

CDNA3

gfx942

✅ 1

AMD Instinct™ MI250X

CDNA2

gfx90a

✅

AMD Instinct™ MI250

CDNA2

gfx90a

✅

AMD Instinct™ MI210

CDNA2

gfx90a

✅

AMD Instinct™ MI100

CDNA

gfx908

✅

AMD Instinct™ MI50

GCN5.1

gfx906

⚠️

AMD Instinct™ MI25

GCN5.0

gfx900

❌

GPU

Architecture

LLVM target

Support

AMD Radeon™ Pro W7900

RDNA3

gfx1100

✅

AMD Radeon™ Pro W6800

RDNA3

gfx1030

✅

AMD Radeon™ Pro V620

RDNA2

gfx1030

✅

AMD Radeon™ Pro VII

GCN5.1

gfx906

✅

GPU

Architecture

LLVM target

Support

AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX

RDNA3

gfx1100

✅

AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XT

RDNA3

gfx1100

✅

AMD Radeon™ VII

GCN5.1

gfx906

✅

✅: Supported - AMD enables these GPUs in our software distributions for the corresponding ROCm product.

⚠️: Deprecated - Support will be removed in a future release.

❌: Unsupported - This configuration is not enabled in our software distributions.

1 MI300A is currently not officially supported on RHEL 9.x. This will be added on a later date.

Supported operating systems#

AMD ROCm™ Software supports the following Linux distributions.

OS

Kernel

Support

RHEL 9.3

5.14.0-362

✅

RHEL 9.2

5.14.0-362

✅

RHEL 8.9

4.18-513

✅

RHEL 8.8

4.18-513

✅

CentOS 7.9

3.10

✅

SLES 15 SP5

5.14.21-150500

✅

SLES 15 SP4

5.14.21-150500

✅

Ubuntu 22.04.4

6.6

✅ 2

Ubuntu 22.04.3

6.2

✅

Ubuntu 22.04.2

5.19

✅

Ubuntu 20.04.6

5.15

✅

Ubuntu 20.04.5

5.15

✅

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Virtualization support#

ROCm supports virtualization for select GPUs only as shown below.

Hypervisor

Version

GPU

Validated Guest OS (Kernel)

VMWare

ESXI 8

MI250

Ubuntu 20.04 (5.15.0)

VMWare

ESXI 8

MI210

Ubuntu 20.04 (5.15.0), SLES 15 SP4 (5.14.21)

VMWare

ESXI 7

MI210

Ubuntu 20.04 (5.15.0), SLES 15 SP4 (5.14.21)

CPU support#

ROCm requires CPUs that support PCIe™ atomics. Modern CPUs after the release of 1st generation AMD Zen CPU and Intel™ Haswell support PCIe atomics.