Software tools & optimizations#
Discover the latest blogs about ROCm software tools, libraries, and performance optimizations to help you get the most out of your AMD hardware.

vLLM V1 Meets AMD Instinct GPUs: A New Era for LLM Inference Performance
vLLM v1 on AMD ROCm boosts LLM serving with faster TTFT, higher throughput, and optimized multimodal support—ready out of the box.

Accelerated LLM Inference on AMD Instinct™ GPUs with vLLM 0.9.x and ROCm
vLLM v0.9.x is here with major ROCm™ optimizations—boosting LLM performance, reducing latency, and expanding model support on AMD Instinct™ GPUs.

Performance Profiling on AMD GPUs – Part 1: Foundations
Part 1 of our GPU profiling series introduces ROCm tools, setup steps, and key concepts to prepare you for deeper dives in the posts to follow.

Fine-Tuning LLMs with GRPO on AMD MI300X: Scalable RLHF with Hugging Face TRL and ROCm
Fine-tune LLMs with GRPO on AMD MI300X—leverage ROCm, Hugging Face TRL, and vLLM for efficient reasoning and scalable RLHF

ROCm Runfile Installer Is Here!
Overview of ROCm Runfile Installer introduced in ROCm 6.4, allowing a complete single package for driver and ROCm installation without internet connectivity

From Theory to Kernel: Implement FlashAttention-v2 with CK-Tile
Learn how to implement FlashAttention-v2 with CK-Tile: minimize memory overhead, maximize compute efficiency, and scale on AMD GPUs

Introducing ROCm-DS: GPU-Accelerated Data Science for AMD Instinct™ GPUs
Accelerate data science with ROCm-DS: AMD’s GPU-optimized toolkit for faster data frames and graph analytics using hipDF and hipGRAPH

Unleash Full GPU Potential: Overlap Communication and Computation with Triton-Distributed
Unlock the full power of AMD GPUs—write portable, efficient kernels with Triton-Distributed, overlapping computation and communication with ease and flexibility

Optimizing DeepseekV3 Inference on SGLang Using ROCm Profiling Tools
Dive into kernel-level profiling of DeepseekV3 on SGLang—identify GPU bottlenecks and boost large language model performance using ROCm

Boosting Llama 4 Inference Performance with AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs
Learn how to boost your Llama 4 inference performance on AMD MI300X GPUs using AITER-optimized kernels and advanced vLLM techniques

Beyond Text: Accelerating Multimodal AI Inference with Speculative Decoding on AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs
This blog shows you how to speedup your multimodal models with AMD’s open-source PyTorch tools for speculative decoding on MI300X GPUs

Hands-On with CK-Tile: Develop and Run Optimized GEMM on AMD GPUs
Build high-performance GEMM kernels using CK-Tile on AMD Instinct GPUs with vendor-optimized pipelines and policies for AI and HPC workloads