AMD ROCm Software Blogs

With a little finagling, I was able to get ComfyUI working for my AMD Cards. I purchased 7800XT with 16GB RAM and have been pretty happy with its value. Getting around 9it/s for a simple SD 1.5 pipeline using 512x512 latent image. Not a speed beast, but plenty fast to teach my kids about AI and run some local models.

Looks like tinycorp is shipping a box with 6x 7900 soon.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;__tinygrad__&#x2F;status&#x2F;1760988080754856210" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;__tinygrad__&#x2F;status&#x2F;1760988080754856210</a>

If you think about doing something using ROCm, read these first to get a feeling for what to expect:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Amd&#x2F;comments&#x2F;a9tjge&#x2F;amd_rocm_hcc_programming_introduction&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Amd&#x2F;comments&#x2F;a9tjge&#x2F;amd_rocm_hcc_pr...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ROCm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ROCm&#x2F;</a>

Just watch out. Sometimes AMD&#x27;s ROCm support for their consumer GPU can be only 4 years (like the RX 580). So if you&#x27;re not buying cutting edge on release day that means you have ~2-3 years max of ROCm support. And then you have to use opencl and let me assure you: it&#x27;s not fun or widespread.

Some of these are pretty good. The AITemplate Stable diffusion demo, for instance, is a nice hidden gem (though I&#x27;m not sure if it works on consumer hardware these days).

Guessing there are a few of us in a position where we are frustrated with our past experiences with ROCm software, (e.g. being awful to install, in the past there were long guides with loads of steps to follow, and not the greatest clarity &#x2F; simplicity in the instructions, and the only option they suggested if you messed it up was to reinstall the operating system, and there were multiple guides &#x2F; pages and it wasn&#x27;t clear which was the latest one, and then it only supported older versions of tensorflow &#x2F; pytorch &#x2F; jax, and only supported recent &#x2F; higher end cards, etc. — it may be better now, this is my experience from I guess a few years ago); but who at the same time recognise that it would be great for GPU compute to be more affordable, and for there to be good competitors to Nvidia.

Waiting for this to work on windows.<p>My gaming machine is a windows machine, so that&#x27;s where my GPU is. Not willing to add a Linux partition, and the &quot;Linux in Windows&quot; support doesn&#x27;t work with AMD gpus.

Lists don&#x27;t make great HN submissions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment&amp;query=denominator%20lists%20by:dang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;sor...</a>. It would be better to pick the most interesting element in the list and submit that instead.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.level1techs.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;mi25-stable-diffusions-100-hidden-beast&#x2F;194172" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.level1techs.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;mi25-stable-diffusions-100-h...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=t4J_KYp0NGM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=t4J_KYp0NGM</a><p>interesting stuff with mi25

I have a 6950XT. Last I read it was impossible to run stable diffusion on it on windows with any decent iteration speed. Is there anywhere to track progress on that? I&#x27;m trying to practice with some AI&#x2F;ML tools, but the software issues make me wish I bought a NVIDIA card instead.

When are we likely to see MI300 available for rent and what would the cost per hour be?