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A question about running LLMs with an AMD card (self.localllama)

submitted 1 year ago by gunpachi to c/localllama@sh.itjust.works

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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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[–] gunpachi 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to use software like stable diffusion and oogabooga. Don't they utilize GPU ?

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Ooga Booga is just a webui for local text gen LLMs, that usually only utilise CPU

SD, on the other hand, does utilise GPU. I haven't tried it but I don't see why it won't run with the open source AMD drivers, they are good. Just try it yourself, everything is free and you would only lose some time in the worst case scenario