AMD Instinct MI50, Radeon Pro VII, and Radeon VII products (collectively gfx906 GPUs) enters
maintenance mode in ROCm 6.0.
As outlined in
5.6.0, ROCm 5.7 was the final release for gfx906 GPUs in a fully supported state.
- Henceforth, no new features and performance optimizations will be supported for the gfx906 GPUs.
- Bug fixes and critical security patches will continue to be supported for the gfx906 GPUs until Q2 2024 (end of maintenance [EOM] will be aligned with the closest ROCm release).
- Bug fixes will be made up to the next ROCm point release.
- Bug fixes will not be backported to older ROCm releases for gfx906.
- Distribution and operating system updates will continue per the ROCm release cadence for gfx906 GPUs until EOM.