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Excited to see how the software support for UDNA1 works out. Very hopeful we'll see some real competition to Nvidia soon in the datacenter. Unfortunately I think the risk is quite high: if AMD burns developers again with poor drivers and poor support, it's hard to see how they'll be able to shake the current stigma.

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Take this with a pinch of salt, but the most recent ROCm release installed out of the box on my WSL2 machine and worked first time with llama.cpp. I even compiled llama.cpp from source with 0 issues. That has never happened ever in my 5+ years of having AMD GPUs. Every other time I've tried this it's either failed and required arcane workarounds, or just not worked entirely (including running on 'real' Linux).

I feel like finally they are turning the corner on software and drivers.

Llama.cpp also has a Vulkan backend that is portable and performant, you don't need to mess with ROCm at all.

Oh yes I know, but "can i compile llama.cpp with rocm" has been my yardstick for how good AMD drivers are for some time.

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