ROCm is now available on Windows OS for consumer GPUs by AMD.

AMD has announced a significant development for its Radeon Open Compute Ecosystem (ROCm) users. ROCm is now available on the Windows operating system, and the company has extended ROCm support to consumer graphics cards, not just professional-grade GPUs. This milestone is crucial for making AMD's GPU family more competitive with NVIDIA and its CUDA-accelerated GPUs. AMD ROCm is a software stack designed for GPU programming, similar to NVIDIA's CUDA. ROCm is designed for AMD GPUs and was previously limited to Linux-based OSes and GFX9, CDNA, and professional-grade RDNA GPUs.

According to documents obtained by Tom's Hardware, AMD has brought ROCm support to Radeon RX 6900 XT, Radeon RX 6600, and R9 Fury GPU. The inclusion of R9 Fury, an eight-year-old graphics card, is particularly interesting. However, only R9 Fury has full ROCm support, while the RX 6900 XT has HIP SDK support, and RX 6600 has only HIP runtime support. Additionally, the consumer-grade R9 Fury GPU has full ROCm support only on Linux and not Windows. The reason for this selection of support is unknown, but it is a step in the right direction for AMD to enable more functionality on Windows and more consumer GPUs to compete with NVIDIA.