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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1423579

Raytracing is finally in a good state for AMD GPUs. Always good to hear GPU improvements for Linux!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meanwhile using stable diffusion with an nvidia card for too long makes cuda crash with failed assertions.

I hope AMD improves ROCm for consumer cards instead of focusing too much on graphics. The 24GB of VRAM on the 7900 XTX would be great for running LLMs, but with the state of ROCm it's not really worth it when a used 3090 can do the job just as not-so-well.

[–] NoXPhasma 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Stable Diffusion with ROCm on Linux. Works great and no need to install the big bloat ROCm from the package manager. I've written an installation guide for Arch, but with little changes it should work on other distributions as well: https://gist.github.com/NoXPhasma/ba42b615c0ed1cb0c2b3a4a1b359ccf7

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice to hear, maybe I will get that XTX then.

I also recently switched to arch and I'd really enjoy having a driver that doesn't crash my entire system when I change the balance of the HDMI audio

[–] 3laws 2 points 1 year ago

I've got three updates on ROCm in the last few months, I think the progress is going steadily.