Is it just memory bandwidth? Or is it that AMD is not well supported by pytorch well enough for most products? Or some combination of those?

  • @[email protected]English
    4•1 year ago

    I’ve gotten LLAMA running locally during CLBlast on an AMD GPU, and using the CPU simultaneously (basically APU execution pathway)

    AMD is seriously slacking when it comes to machine learning, the hardware is Uber powerful, but just like everyone complains about, software isn’t there.

    ROCM doesn’t even work on Windows, FFS.

    You can run models on almost anything but the token generation is extremely slow. Like, you might be waiting upwards of 5 minutes for a response, or something like 0.2-0.6/tokens per second, which for a minimum of 100 tokens to be coherent is abysmal.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      If you’re using llama.cpp, some ROCM stuff recently got merged in. It works pretty well, at least on my 6600. I believe there were instructions for getting it working on Windows in the pull.