Re:AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion...
by dagw on Monday August 21, 2023 @04:17AM
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I think things are getting better
Hopefully. Although I haven't programmed with it yet, the latest ROCm looks nice (at least from reading the docs). Now all you have to do is actually get to a point where it's actually supported on hardware people actually own and convince people that it's worth investing their time in, and then AMD can start making progress.
Re:AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion...
by slavik81 on Monday August 21, 2023 @08:03PM
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The Debian packages support a much wider range of hardware than the AMD packages do. Just about any discrete AMD GPU hardware released in the past five years should already work or will work soon.
While there's very few cards that are officially supported, I've enabled most RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs in the OS-provided packages on Debian Unstable and Ubuntu 23.10. I haven't tested all of them, but my experience has been that they generally work quite well. The version of HIP packaged for Debian is still a few versions behind, so we haven't been able to enable RDNA 3 yet, but it shouldn't be too long before that is resolved.
As you have described, it has been a very long road to get to this point (with a lot of mistakes along the way), but I think things are getting better. That said, I work on ROCm, so my evaluation may be unintentionally biased.