It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed. What’s more surprising is the terrible way t…
Amd had approximately 1 consumer gpu with rocm support so unless your framework supports opencl or you want to fuck around with unsupported rocm drivers then you’re out of luck. They’ve completely failed to meet the market
I mean… my 6700xt dont have offical rocm support, but the rocm driver works perfectly fine for it. The difference is amd hasnt but the effort in testing rocm on their consumer cards, thus cant make claims support for it.
That’s fine and dandy until you need to do ML, there is no other option
ML?
Machine learning
Is that a huge deal for the average user?
Average user no, power user/enthusiast/techie absolutely critical
I successfully ran local Llama with llama.cpp and an old AMD GPU. I’m not sure why you think there’s no other option.
Amd had approximately 1 consumer gpu with rocm support so unless your framework supports opencl or you want to fuck around with unsupported rocm drivers then you’re out of luck. They’ve completely failed to meet the market
Llama.cpp now supports Vulkan, so it doesn’t matter what card you’re using.
I mean… my 6700xt dont have offical rocm support, but the rocm driver works perfectly fine for it. The difference is amd hasnt but the effort in testing rocm on their consumer cards, thus cant make claims support for it.