Graphics Cards

[rana]

I have purchased a laptop with ryzen5 2500u. The radeon Vega-8 is better than the GPU in i5, but couldn't find tensorflow support in ROCm. Please tell me where I can find tensorflow support for Vega-8 GPU in Ubuntu environment.

[fsadough]

1. Which version of Tensorflow?
2. Which laptop?
3. Which ROCm version?

[rana]

1.    The latest Tensorflow has GPU support only for NVIDIA https://www.tensorflow.org/install/gpu . Radeon open compute (ROCm) provides alternative https://gpuopen.com/rocm-tensorflow-1-8-release/ but my GPU (Vega 8) is not in their list https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm#supported-gpus.

2.      Dell inspiron 5575

3.      I haven’t installed ROCm as I could not find the suitable version for this GPU. Its current version is  1.9.1

[fsadough]

https://gpuopen.com/rocm-tensorflow-1-8-release/

Current CPUs which support PCIe Gen3 + PCIe Atomics are:

• AMD Ryzen CPUs;
• AMD Ryzen APUs;

[freezers]

Question is about using GPU from 2500U, not CPU

P.s. and I'm also interested in an answer. Thanks

[fsadough]

Ryzen 2500U is an APU:

https://gpuopen.com/rocm-tensorflow-1-8-release/

Current CPUs which support PCIe Gen3 + PCIe Atomics are:

• AMD Ryzen CPUs;
• AMD Ryzen APUs;

[freezers]

APU is combination of CPU + GPU

I am asking about GPU part from APU

[fsadough]

I believe I sent you the link already:

Supported GPUs

Because the ROCm Platform has a focus on particular computational domains, we offer official support for a selection of AMD GPUs that are designed to offer good performance and price in these domains.

ROCm officially supports AMD GPUs that have use following chips:

• GFX8 GPUs
  • “Fiji” chips, such as on the the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X and Radeon Instinct MI8
  • “Polaris 10” chips, such as on the AMD Radeon RX 580 and Radeon Instinct MI6
  • “Polaris 11” chips, such as on the AMD Radeon RX 570 and Radeon Pro WX 4100
• GFX9 GPUs
  • “Vega 10” chips, such as on the AMD Radeon Radeon RX Vega 64 and Radeon Instinct MI25

ROCm is a collection of software ranging from drivers and runtimnes to libraries and developer tools. Some of this software may work with more GPUs than the “officially supported” list above, though AMD does not make any official claims of support for these devices on the ROCm software platform. The following list of GPUs are likely to work within ROCm, though full support is not guaranteed:

• GFX7 GPUs
  • “Hawaii” chips, such as the AMD Radeon R9 390X and FirePro W9100

As described in the next section, GFX8 GPUs require PCIe gen 3 with support for PCIe atomics. This requires both CPU and motherboard support. GFX9 GPUs, by default, also require PCIe gen 3 with support for PCIe atomics, but they can operate in most cases without this capability.

At this time, the integrated GPUs in AMD APUs are not officially supported targets for ROCm.

For a more detailed list of hardware support, please see the following documentation.