RDNA Shader Instruction Set Architecture document is now available
This is a very short blog post to let everyone know that the RDNA Shader Instruction Set Architecture reference guide is now available. The document …
This is a very short blog post to let everyone know that the RDNA Shader Instruction Set Architecture reference guide is now available. The document …
A new version of the CodeXL open-source developer tool is now available! What’s New? For current users of CodeXL, this new release may look and …
We are excited to announce the release of ROCm enabled TensorFlow v1.8 for AMD GPUs. This post demonstrates the steps to install and use …
We have posted the version 1.2 update to the TrueAudio Next open-source library to Github. It is available here. This update has a number of …
Why Vulkan? With advantages like reduced driver overhead and more control over GPUs, Vulkan has become the 3D graphics and compute API of choice for …
Insights from Enscape as to how they designed a renderer that produces path traced real time global illumination and can also converge to offline rendered image quality
Understanding the instruction-level capabilities of any processor is a worthwhile endeavour for any developer writing code for it, even if the instructions that get executed …
I wanted to share an update on “what’s new” with HIP and HCC in ROCm 1.6: HIP has a new home We’re still on GitHub, …
Overview Announcing our new Foundation for Deep Learning acceleration MIOpen 1.0 which introduces support for Convolution Neural Network acceleration — built to run on top …
Overview ROCm 1.6 introduces big updates to our OpenCL compiler and runtime implementation — built on top of the ROCm software stack! This developer release includes …
A revolution in machine learning In 2012, a research group from the University of Toronto led by Geoffrey Hinton created an earth-shattering advancement to the …
The Challenge CAFFE is a popular machine learning framework created by the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center. The code base contains more than 55,000 lines of …
A new version of the CodeXL open-source developer tool is out! Here are the major new features in this release: CPU Profiling Support for AMD …
This article explains how to use Radeon GPU Analyzer (RGA) to produce a live VGPR analysis report for your shaders and kernels. Basic RGA usage …
Introduction Sub DWord Addressing is a feature of the AMD GCN architecture which allows the efficient extraction of 8-bit and 16-bit values from a 32-bit register. …
In 2016, AMD brought TrueAudio Next to GameSoundCon. GameSoundCon was held Sept 27-28 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. GameSoundCon caters to game …
HBM The AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury Series graphics cards (Fury X, R9 Fury and the R9 Nano graphics cards) are the world’s first GPU family …
With ROCm 1.2 we are moving beyond the Fiji Islands of GPU’s to bring a broader selection of hardware with the inclusion of the Hawaii …
We’ve been super-busy – so busy that it has been a while since I’ve been able to post. I wanted to pause long enough to …
Cross-lane operations are an efficient way to share data between wavefront lanes. This article covers in detail the cross-lane features that GCN3 offers. I’d like …
A new release of the CodeXL open-source developer tool is out! Here’s the hot new stuff in this release: New platforms support Support Linux systems …
Many fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms implement an intermediate transpose stage. Traditionally, the transpositions have used an out-of-place approach in the clFFT library – that …
The ability to write code in assembly is essential to achieving the best performance for a GPU program. In a previous blog we described how …
We previously looked at how to launch an OpenCL™ kernel using the HSA runtime. That example showed the basics of using the HSA Runtime. Here we’ll …
The team just released an update to HIP in version 0.86 which includes several improvements in the functionality and tools. Also we have included several additional …
Introduction In a previous blog we discussed the different languages available on the ROCm platform. Here we’ll show you how to combine several of these …
A new CodeXL release is out! For the first time the AMD Developer Tools group worked on this release on the CodeXL GitHub public repository, …
Achieving high performance from your Graphics or GPU Compute applications can sometimes be a difficult task. There are many things that a shader or kernel …
A Complete Tool to Transform Your Desktop Appearance After introducing our Display Output Post Processing (DOPP) technology, we are introducing a new tool to change …
ROCm-gdb v1.0 includes new features to assist application developers with understanding their application’s behavior. To get started with ROCm-gdb follow the installation directions and introductory …
One of the exciting new features that is available in clFFT 2.10 is the ability to compute very large FFTs. By very large, I mean …
The open-source ROCm stack offers several programming-language choices. Overall, the goal is to give you a range of tools to help solve the problem at …
Are You Ready to ROCK! The ROCm Platform delivers on the vision of the Boltzmann Initiative, bringing new opportunities in GPU Computing Research. On November …
CodeXL major release 2.0 is out! It is chock-full of new features and a drastic change in the CodeXL development model: CodeXL is now open …
With the announcement of the Boltzmann Initiative and the recent releases of ROCK and ROCR, AMD has ushered in a new era of Heterogeneous Computing. …
It’s been just under two months since we publicly launched the HIP repository, and I wanted to share a quick update on the work we’ve …
It was a critical question we asked ourselves early in the project, but we also asked if we can bring together a solution where you …
The ROCm Platform Deliver on the Vison of the Boltzmann Initiative, Bringing a New Opportunities in GPU Computing Research On November 16th, 2015, the Radeon Technology …
The Open Path to Bring Forward Your Ideas to High-Performance GPU Computing Welcome to the new Portal I want to welcome you to the new …
Announcing HSAIL GDB Version 1.0 … Today as part of AMD’s GPUOpen initiative, we are happy to announce the release of HSAIL GDB version 1.0 …
“AMD is releasing open source code for CodeXL Analyzer CLI. This is a performance analysis tool for OpenCL™ kernels, DirectX® shaders and OpenGL shaders. Using …
This tutorial shows how to get started with HIP. We’ll take a simple CUDA application, hipify it, and run it on multiple platforms. Editor’s note: …
In November, AMD launched the Boltzmann Initiative at Supercomputing 2015 with the goal of enabling developers to more easily employ the full compute potential of …
Intro The “P” in HIP literally stands for portability – HIP’s full and formal name is the “Heterogeneous-computing Interface for Portability”. However, even in a …