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product launchAug 29, 2026
96% VerifiedAMD Releases ROCm 6.2 featuring Unified ROCprofiler-SDK and Native FP8 Support for MI300X GPUs
AMD released ROCm 6.2, introducing the unified ROCprofiler-SDK to replace legacy roctracer and rocprofiler profiling toolkits. The release adds native FP8 data type support (E4M3 and E5M2 formats) for AI workloads on AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators.
Before: ROCm 6.1 required developers to use legacy roctracer and rocprofiler toolkits for performance analysis and lacked native PyTorch FP8 quantization primitives on Instinct MI300X GPUs.
After: ROCm 6.2 provides a unified ROCprofiler-SDK alongside native FP8 (E4M3 and E5M2) support in PyTorch and vLLM for AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators.
Complete AMD Change Log Index
| Date | Change Title | Type | Impact | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2026 | AMD Releases ROCm 6.2 featuring Unified ROCprofiler-SDK and Native FP8 Support for MI300X GPUs | product_launch | 8/10 | View ➔ |