I’ve a minipc running an AMD 5700U where I host some services, including ollama and openwebui.

Unfortunately the support of rocm isn’t quite there yet and not to mention that of mobile GPUs.

Surprisingly the prompts work when configured to use the CPU, but the speed is just… well, not good.

So, what’d be a cheap and energy efficient setup to run sone kind of LLM for personal use, but still get decent speed?

I was thinking about getting an e-gpu case, but I’m not sure about how solid this would end up.

  • exuEnglish
    5•6 months ago

    You can use OpenCL instead of ROCm for GPU offloading. In my tests with llama.cpp that improved performance massively.

    Definitely do benchmarks for how many layers you can offload to the GPU. You’ll see when it’s too many, as performance will crater.

    By launching llama.cpp as a server you’ll actually be able to continue to use openwebui as you currently have.