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AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture — bringing RDNA and CDNA together to take on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so, it's just what I'm more familiar with and I usually try to avoid apt's PPA hell as much as I can. But maybe I should try some others, as I couldn't get Mullvad to run either yet. :/

Text gen web ui I tried quite a while before I went to koboldcpp on my previous distro and I could not get that to run without crashing whenever I tried to generate anything. Sillytavern is my standard frontend that I use, so any text gen software should inherently compatible with that anyway.

[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, gotcha. I just tried out a fresh copy of text-gen-webui and it seems like the latest version is borked with ROCM (I get the CUDA error: invalid device function error).

My next recommendation then would be LM Studio which to my knowledge can still output an OpenAI compatible API endpoint to be used in SillyTavern - I've used it in the past before and I didn't even need to run it within Distrobox (I have all of the ROCM stuff installed locally, but I generally run most of the AI stuff in distrobox since it tends to require an older version of Python than Arch is currently using) - it seems they've recently started supporting running GGUF models via Vulkan, which I assume probably doesn't require the ROCM stuff to be installed perhaps?

Might be worth a shot, I just downloaded the latest version (the UI has definitely changed a bit since I last used it) and just grabbed a copy of the Gemma model and ran it, and it seemed to work without an issue for me directly on the host.

The advanced configuration settings no longer seem to directly mention GPU acceleration like it used to, however I can see it utilizing GPU resources in nvtop currently, and the speed it was generating at (the one in my screenshot was 83 tokens a second) couldn't have possibly been done on the CPU so it seems to be fine on my side.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

I tried LM Studio (directly in Bazzite) and it has the same issue of not running through the GPU. It also always seem to end up stopping generating anything after a few moments when I use it with SillyTavern.

Tried the koboldcpp AUR package through Distrobox, and when I select the ROCm option it crashes with a CUDA error. lol Using the Vulkan option it still seems to run through the CPU for some reason.