Especially with the newer ROCm 7.2.x releases improving hardware support and other improvements. Especially with the rate of improvements to ROCm recently, it’s unfortunate to see ROCm 7.1 shipped in the Ubuntu 26.04 archive.
Improvements!
But yeah, 3 months out of date for software that isn’t security critical is fine. Probably just hit the feature freeze at a bad time. It still presumably works well enough for most people.
3 months isn’t bad though. Especially since it’s going to be locked out of changes so in 5 years it will be 5 years and 3 months out of date. The bigger problem with rocm is that they cut off older cards way too soon.
I bought a radeon pro vii brand new from a shop (granted it was a runout sale) and it was already cut off. It still works but not supported.
AMD can’t keep complaining everyone focuses on CUDA when they don’t even bother to support their own product. It supports very few cards and they get cut off way too soon.
Nvidia supports even midrange consumer cards and they keep supporting them a long time.
Improvements!
But yeah, 3 months out of date for software that isn’t security critical is fine. Probably just hit the feature freeze at a bad time. It still presumably works well enough for most people.
3 months isn’t bad though. Especially since it’s going to be locked out of changes so in 5 years it will be 5 years and 3 months out of date. The bigger problem with rocm is that they cut off older cards way too soon.
I bought a radeon pro vii brand new from a shop (granted it was a runout sale) and it was already cut off. It still works but not supported.
AMD can’t keep complaining everyone focuses on CUDA when they don’t even bother to support their own product. It supports very few cards and they get cut off way too soon.
Nvidia supports even midrange consumer cards and they keep supporting them a long time.