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AMD's original software stack, called AMDGPU-pro, provides OpenCL 1.2 and 2.0 capabilities on Linux and Windows. However, most of AMD's efforts today is on an experimental framework called ROCm. ROCm is AMD's open source compiler and device driver stack intended for general purpose compute. AMDGPU-pro drivers can run OpenCL 1.2 and OpenCL 2.0 code across Linux and Windows. ROCm supports two languages: HIP (a CUDA-like C++ interface also based on LLVM/clang), and OpenCL 2.0. ROCm only works on Linux machines supporting modern hardware, such as PCIe 3.0 and relatively recent GPUs (such as the Rx 580, and Vega GPUs).