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A question about running LLMs with an AMD card (lemmings.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On my machine I'm running opensuse tumbleweed and has the amdgpu driver installed. I use it for gaming and recently I've become interested in running LLMs. So I would like to keep a balance of both without compromising too much on performance.

I know that there are proprietary drivers for AMD cards but I'm hesitant to install it as I've heard that it performs less efficiently in games when compared to the open source driver.

I'm mainly confused about this ROCM thing. Is it not included with the opensource amdgpu drivers ? Or is it available as a separate package?

So what driver to use ?

Or perhaps, is it possible to run oogabooga or stable diffusion within a distrobox container (with the proprietary drivers) and still keep using the open source gpu drivers for the Host operating system.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

To do general purpose GPU calculations on AMD hardware you need a GPU that is supported by ROCm (AMD's equivalent to CUDA). Most of the gaming GPUs are not.

There is a list here but be aware that that is for the latest rocm version, some tools might still use older versions with different supported devices.

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/latest/reference/system-requirements.html#supported-gpus

[–] turbodrooler 3 points 10 months ago

This link is misleading. For example, the Radeon RX6800 IS supported because it is the same chip as one of the Radeon Pros. GFX1030. Many others are too…though support does not go very far back.

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