AMD Compilers, Analyzers, Debuggers — 2026-04-20 scan

Lens: what improves 1bit systems's AIE kernel authoring, HIP perf, or ROCm profiling beyond our current stack (gcc 14, clang 20, hipcc, Peano/llvm-aie, rocprof, rocgdb, bindgen). Landing page: https://www.amd.com/en/developer/browse-by-resource-type/software-tools.html (fetch blocked; table from GPUOpen + ROCm docs).

Catalog

Tool	What it does	Linux today?	License	Fits our stack?
AOCC	Zen-tuned Clang/Flang (LLVM 17), no GPU offload	Yes	AMD EULA	Overlaps clang 20; Zen5 wins marginal vs CachyOS `znver4`. Skip.
AOMP	LLVM+OpenMP GPU offload staging	Yes	Apache 2.0	hipcc covers us. Defer.
hipcc / ROCm LLVM	HIP + amdclang++	Yes	NCSA/MIT	Using.
ROCgdb	GDB with AMDGPU wavefront debug	Yes	GPL	Using.
rocprof / rocprofv2	HW counters, kernel traces (EOL 2026-Q2)	Yes	MIT	Using. Migrate Q2.
rocprofiler-sdk / `rocprofv3`	Successor C++ API	Yes	MIT	Adopt on next bump.
ROCm Compute Profiler (`rocprof-compute`, ex-Omniperf)	Roofline, L1/L2/LDS counters, Grafana UI	Yes (ROCm ≥6.2)	MIT	Adopt. Serves Gerganov L1 lead + Sherry bytes-read validation.
ROCm Systems Profiler (ex-Omnitrace)	Whole-app timeline, GPU+CPU sampling	Yes	MIT	Adopt for voice lane.
Radeon GPU Analyzer (RGA)	Offline compiler + ISA inspector (Vulkan/DX/GL/OpenCL), VGPR/SGPR/occupancy	Yes (CLI + VS Code ext)	MIT	gfx1151 supported (2.12+ adds gfx1150/1151/1152/1201). No native HIP input, but OpenCL+GCN ISA dump fills a real gap vs rocprof. Adopt.
Radeon GPU Profiler (RGP)	Vulkan/DX12 frame profiler	Yes	MIT	Graphics only. Skip.
Radeon Raytracing Analyzer (RRA)	BVH inspector	Yes	MIT	Skip.
Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV)	VRAM residency timeline	Yes (AMDVLK only)	MIT	25.20 RADV-default breaks capture. Skip for now.
AMD uProf	Zen CPU profiler: IBS, branch mispredict, LLC miss, AVX-512 retire; also MI metrics	Yes, AUR `amduprof`	AMD EULA	Adopt for CPU offload lane. Only tool with clean Zen5 PMC coverage on Linux.
GPU PerfStudio / RCP	Deprecated	—	—	Skip.
llvm-aie `llvm-mc`, `llvm-objdump`	AIE2/AIE2P assembler + disassembler in Peano fork	Yes, at `/opt/peano/bin`	Apache-2.0	Already installed; just not invoking. `llvm-objdump -d --triple=aie2p-none-unknown-elf` disassembles AIE2P ELFs. Use for AIE debug.
mlir-aie / IRON	MLIR AIE dialect + Python IRON front-end	Yes	Apache-2.0	Authoring-time Python OK (Rule A covers runtime). Defer until first AIE2P kernel.

Special-focus answers

AIE assembler/disassembler? YES. /opt/peano/bin/llvm-mc + /opt/peano/bin/llvm-objdump, triple aie2p-none-unknown-elf. https://github.com/Xilinx/llvm-aie (issue #352 confirms AIE2PInstPrinter). No separate AMD-branded assembler exists.
Zen5 profiler on Arch/CachyOS? YES. AMD uProf via AUR amduprof; closed tarball, user-mode driver loads on Arch kernels. IBS + branch-mispredict + LLC + AVX-512 retire counters.
RGA on gfx1151? YES. RGA 2.12+ adds gfx1150/1151/1152/1201 across all compile modes. OpenCL offline path works without a runtime launch. Caveat: no direct .hip ingest — feed extracted GCN asm (hipcc --save-temps) or OpenCL.

Adopt order (hot-path impact)

RGA — offline gfx1151 ISA / occupancy / register-pressure on the ternary GEMV (rocprof doesn't show this).
rocprof-compute — roofline validates "92% of LPDDR5 peak" and Sherry's projected bytes-read drop.
AMD uProf — CPU offload lane, only clean Zen5 PMC coverage on Linux.
llvm-objdump --triple=aie2p — free, already on disk.
rocprofiler-sdk — migrate before rocprof EOL 2026-Q2.

Skips: AOCC, AOMP (overlap); RGP/RRA/RMV (wrong workload); GPU PerfStudio, RCP (deprecated).

URLs

Landing: https://www.amd.com/en/developer/browse-by-resource-type/software-tools.html
AOCC: https://www.amd.com/en/developer/aocc.html
uProf: https://www.amd.com/en/developer/uprof.html
RGA: https://gpuopen.com/rga/ · releases: https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/radeon_gpu_analyzer/releases
RGP/RRA/RMV: https://gpuopen.com/rgp/ · https://gpuopen.com/radeon-raytracing-analyzer/ · https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/radeon_memory_visualizer
rocprof-compute: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/rocprofiler-compute/en/latest/
rocprofiler-sdk: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/en/latest/
llvm-aie (Peano): https://github.com/Xilinx/llvm-aie
mlir-aie: https://github.com/Xilinx/mlir-aie