AMDGPU available for Windows?

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Does anyone know when the AMDGPU.jl package will be available for Windows? Right now, it is only available for Linux. Thxs!

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This is stalled on AMD porting ROCm (specifically ROCT and ROCR) to Windows or WSL2. There’s not really much I can do without those, since they’re necessary to be able to launch kernels.

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I see, thanks!
Is there any alternative package that I can use? Or should I just buy an Nvidia card and move to CUDA? I’ve been using CLArrays.jl in Julia 0.6v, but it does not work in 1.x versions.

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You have the following options for getting GPU compute:

  • Move to Linux
  • Passthrough the AMD card to a Linux VM (making it unavailable to Windows) (untested)
  • Buy an NVidia card and use CUDA

And to help improve the situation going forward, you can:

  • Help with, or sponsor development of, bringing CLArrays.jl back from the dead
  • Make noise on social media and other platforms to push AMD to support ROCm on Windows/WSL2
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Did you look at ArrayFire? You can’t write kernels but if you only need whatever predefined operations they already include it should work.

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