4 engineers on Hacker News describe using ROCm first-hand: 0 endorse it, 4 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“for consumer AMD GPU ROCm is a trap. It is a mayfly.”
regret · personal · 1.5 yr · superkuh · 2026-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It took two years for the driver to stop randomly crashing with very pedestrian ROCm loads.”
regret · personal · 2 yr · FeepingCreature · 2024-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Bought in 2020. Stopped working in 2020. Not the latest, but in-production, advertised ROCm-capable”
regret · personal · frognumber · 2023-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“literally anything new stopped working a few months later when AMD decided to update ROCm to drop support for GFX8 GPUs”
regret · personal · frognumber · 2023-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?