Ask HN: Vulkan Support on AMD Instinct GPUs


I have been learning Vulkan (compute) to be used for high performance physics simulations because I like the low levelness of the API. I thought Vulkan to be the widely adopted and having great support form all vendors. This seems to be true for consumer grade hardware but AMD Instinct GPUs don’t seem to have Vulkan support or at least I could not find information where it would explicitly say one or the other (more below), so:

Is it true that they do not support Vulkan?

If not:

Is there any information are they planning to implement Vulkan drivers for Instinct GPUs?

Also is there any workaround to get Vulkan working on Instinct GPUs?

Information about vulkan support:

AMD pages about MI25 and MI50 says they supports Vulkan 1.0

https://www.amd.com/en/products/professional-graphics/instinct-mi50

AMD pages about MI100 and MI250 says nothing about Vulkan https://www.amd.com/en/products/server-accelerators/instinct-mi100

Techpowerup says N/A for MI100 Vulkan support https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-instinct-mi100.c3496

This finnish retailer (Jimms) says that MI100 supports Vulkan 1.0 https://www.jimms.fi/fi/Product/Show/170323/100-506116/amd-radeon-instinct-mi100-naytonohjain-32gb-hbm2


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