ROCm: AMD's Open-Source Path Through the AI Software Stack

But an AI accelerator is only as useful as the software that lets it run a model, and for AMD's Instinct GPUs, ROCm is that software. If CUDA is the reason NVIDIA's hardware advantage has proven so durable, ROCm is AMD's answer to the same problem: how do you get PyTorch, vLLM, and a few hundred thousand developers to treat your silicon as a first-class citizen rather than an afterthought.