ROCm component support

Applies to Windows

2024-01-11

2 min read time

Starting with ROCm 5.5, the HIP SDK brings a subset of ROCm to developers on Windows. The collection of features enabled on Windows is referred to as the HIP SDK. These features allow developers to use the HIP runtime, HIP math libraries and HIP Primitive libraries. The following table shows the differences between Windows and Linux releases.

Component	Linux	Windows
Driver	Radeon Software for Linux	AMD Software Pro Edition
Compiler	hipcc/amdclang++	hipcc/clang++
Debugger	rocgdb	no debugger available
Profiler	ROCProfiler	Radeon GPU Profiler
Porting Tools	HIPIFY	Coming Soon
Runtime	HIP (open sourced)	HIP (closed source)
Math Libraries	Supported	Supported
Primitives Libraries	Supported	Supported
Communication Libraries	Supported	Not available
AI Libraries	MIOpen, MIGraphX	Not Available
System Management	ROCm SMI, RDC, rocminfo	amdsmi, hipInfo
AI Frameworks	PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.	Not available
CMake HIP Language	Enabled	Unsupported
Visual Studio	Not applicable	Plugin available
HIP Ray Tracing	Supported	Supported

We are continuing to invest in Windows support and plan to release enhanced features in future revisions.

Note

The 5.5 Windows Installer collectively groups the Math and Primitives libraries.