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What's the experience for using AMD GPUs for COMPUTE on GNU/Linux? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Yes, I've heard it a million times by now. AMD drivers on GNU/Linux are great for anything that's related to display or gaming. But what about compute? How is the compute experience for AMD GPUs?

Will it be like Nvidia GPUs where, no matter what I do, as long as programmes support hardware acceleration, that they supports my GPU? Or is there some sort of configuration or trickery that I need to do for programmes to recognise my GPU?

For example, how well is machine learning supported on AMD GPUs, like LLMs or image generation?

I know from past benchmarks that, for example, Blender's performance has always been worse on AMD GPUs because the software quality just wasn't there.

I use my GPU mostly for production tasks, such as Blender, image editing, some machine learning inference, such as text generation, image generation, etc. And lastly, video games.

With this use case in mind, does it make sense to switch to AMD for a future production first, video games second PC? Or, with that use case, should I just stick to Nvidia's price gouging and VRAM gimping?

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[–] busyboredom@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have been doing a bit of compute work on nixos with both AMD and nvidia, and I'd say it depends on what you're doing.

If you're doing your compute via compute shaders, you'll have a great experience on AMD. Zero hiccups for me, I just wrote my shaders and ran them no problem. Vulkan is incredible.

If you have to interact with other people's compute crap though, it might be a bad time. Most folks do GPU compute with cuda, and that won't be fun for you on AMD. Yes there are translation layers, and you can make them work for some use cases, but its a bad experience. And yeah rocm exists... but does it really? Not many cards actually support rocm, and software support for it is just as sparse.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 17 hours ago

I will point out that the card support for ROCm has improved; AMD explicitly supports most RDNA3 or later consumer GPUs, and I think support might go back to RDNA2, maybe RDNA1.

Supposedly it’s technically possible to use Polaris, but it’s very broken at this point.