AMD Updates ROCm to Support Ryzen AI Max and Radeon RX 9000 Series

AMD announced its Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) platform with hardware acceleration support for the Ryzen AI Max 300 “Strix Halo” client processors, and the Radeon RX 9000 series gaming GPUs. For the Ryzen AI Max 300 “Strix Halo,” this would unlock the compute power of the 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units, with their 80 AI accelerators, and 2,560 stream processors, besides the AI-specific ISA of the up to 16 “Zen 5” CPU cores, including their full fat 512-bit FPU for executing AVX512 instructions. For the Radeon RX 9000 series, this would mean putting those up to 64 RDNA 4 compute units with up to 128 AI accelerators and up to 4,096 stream processors to use.

AMD also announced that it has updated the ROCm product stack with support for various main distributions of Linux, including OpenSuSE (available now), Ubuntu, and Red Hat EPEL, with the latter two getting ROCm support in the second half of 2025. Lastly, ROCm gets full Windows support, including Pytorch and ONNX-EP. A preview of the Pytorch support can be expected in Q3-2025, while a preview for ONNX-EP could arrive in July 2025.