On my machine I’m running opensuse tumbleweed and has the amdgpu driver installed. I use it for gaming and recently I’ve become interested in running LLMs. So I would like to keep a balance of both without compromising too much on performance.

I know that there are proprietary drivers for AMD cards but I’m hesitant to install it as I’ve heard that it performs less efficiently in games when compared to the open source driver.

I’m mainly confused about this ROCM thing. Is it not included with the opensource amdgpu drivers ? Or is it available as a separate package?

So what driver to use ?

Or perhaps, is it possible to run oogabooga or stable diffusion within a distrobox container (with the proprietary drivers) and still keep using the open source gpu drivers for the Host operating system.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•5 months ago

    Has that changed recently? I’ve ran ROCm successfully on an RX6800. I seem to recall that was supported, the host OS (Arch) was not.

    • @taladarEnglish
      2•5 months ago

      When I tried it maybe a year or so ago there were four supported chipset in that version (5.4.2 I think) of rocm but I don’t remember which card models those were since they were only specified in that internal chip name. Mine wasn’t supported at the time (5700XT)