vLLM Deployment on ROCm (Ubuntu 24.04 + ROCm 7+)

This guide shows how to deploy and call Qwen3 with vLLM on ROCm.

For ROCm 7.13 / gfx1151, there are two practical Docker routes:

• AMD ROCm validated image: rocm/vllm:rocm7.13.0_gfx1151_ubuntu24.04_py3.13_pytorch_2.10.0_vllm_0.19.1
• Upstream vLLM image: vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:latest

Prerequisite: complete ROCm 7.13 environment setup.

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1. ROCm 7.13 Validated Docker Image (gfx1151)

docker pull rocm/vllm:rocm7.13.0_gfx1151_ubuntu24.04_py3.13_pytorch_2.10.0_vllm_0.19.1

docker run -it --rm \
  --device /dev/kfd \
  --device /dev/dri \
  --network=host \
  --ipc=host \
  --group-add=video \
  --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE \
  --security-opt seccomp=unconfined \
  -v ~/models:/app/models \
  -e HF_HOME="/app/models" \
  rocm/vllm:rocm7.13.0_gfx1151_ubuntu24.04_py3.13_pytorch_2.10.0_vllm_0.19.1 \
  bash

Inside the container:

vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
  --served-model-name Qwen3-0.6B \
  --max-model-len 4096

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2. Upstream vLLM ROCm Image

docker run --rm \
  --group-add=video \
  --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE \
  --security-opt seccomp=unconfined \
  --device /dev/kfd \
  --device /dev/dri \
  -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  --ipc=host \
  vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:latest \
  --model Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
  --served-model-name Qwen3-0.6B \
  --max-model-len 4096

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3. API Calls

curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "Qwen3-0.6B",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Introduce ROCm in one sentence."}],
    "temperature": 0.7,
    "max_tokens": 256
  }'

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(api_key="EMPTY", base_url="http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="Qwen3-0.6B",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Introduce deep learning in one sentence."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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4. ROCm Wheel Path (Optional)

ROCm wheels are stricter about Python / ROCm / glibc versions. Use Docker first unless there is a specific reason to manage vLLM in a local Python environment.