alt Hacker NewsFWIW, every ROCm library currently in the Debian 13 'main' and Ubuntu 24.04 'universe' repository has been built for and tested on every discrete consumer GPU architecture since Vega. Not every package is available that way, but the ones that are have been tested on and work on Vega 10, Vega 20, RDNA 1, 2 and 3.
Note that these are not the packages distributed by AMD. They are the packages in the OS repositories. Not all the ROCm packages are there, but most of them are. The biggest downside is that some of them are a little old and don't have all the latest performance optimizations for RDNA 3.
Those operating systems will be around for the next decade, so that should at least provide one option for users of older hardware.
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I can confirm this, Debian's ROCm distribution worked great for me on some "unsupported" cards.
Packages existing and the software actually working are very different things. You can run rocm on unsupported GPUs like a 780m, but as soon as you hit an issue you are out of luck. And you’ll hit an issue.
For example, my 780m gets 1-2 inferences from llama.cpp before dropping off the bus due to a segfault in the driver. It’s a bad enough lockup that linux can’t cleanly shutdown and will hang under hard rebooted.