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Community to discuss about LLaMA, the large language model created by Meta AI.

This is intended to be a replacement for r/LocalLLaMA on Reddit.

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Is there a good reason why AMD APUs just aren't used with massive amounts of (V)RAM just like the Mac M2 is? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/localllama

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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?

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[–] Naz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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] 3 points 1 year ago

Isn't windows for gaming and weird proprietary applications like photoshop?

[–] Kerfuffle 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Naz 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much! I'll be sure to check that out / get it updated