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FWIW, every ROCm library currently in the Debian 13 'main' and Ubuntu 24.04 'universe' repository has been built for and tested on every discrete consumer GPU a

FWIW, every ROCm library currently in the Debian 13 'main' and Ubuntu 24.04 'universe' repository has been built for and tested on every discrete consumer GPU architecture since Vega. Not every package is available that way, but the ones that are have been tested on and work on Vega 10, Vega 20, RDNA 1, 2 and 3. Note that these are not the packages distributed by AMD. They are the packages in the OS repositories. Not all the ROCm packages are there, but most of them are. The biggest downside is that some of them are a little old and don't have all the latest performance optimizations for RDNA 3. Those operating systems will be around for the next decade, so that should at least provide one option for users of older hardware.

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mappu 2y ago
I can confirm this, Debian's ROCm distribution worked great for me on some "unsupported" cards.
buildbot 2y ago
Packages existing and the software actually working are very different things. You can run rocm on unsupported GPUs like a 780m, but as soon as you hit an issue you are out of luck. And you’ll hit an issue. For example, my 780m gets 1-2 inferences from llama.cpp before dropping off the bus due to a segfault in the driver. It’s a bad enough lockup that linux can’t cleanly shutdown and will hang under hard rebooted.
- slavik81 2y ago
  The 780m is an integrated GPU. I specified discrete GPUs because that's what I have tested and can confirm will work. I have dozens of different AMD GPUs and I personally host most of the Debian ROCm Team's continuous integration servers. Over the past year, I have worked together with other members of the Debian project to ensure that every potentially affected ROCm library is tested on every discrete consumer AMD GPU architecture since Vega whenever a new version of a package is uploaded to Debian. FWIW, Framework Computers donated a few laptops to Debian last year, which I plan to use to enable the 780m too. I just haven't had the time yet. Fedora has some patches that add support for that architecture.
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mappu 2y ago

I can confirm this, Debian's ROCm distribution worked great for me on some "unsupported" cards.

buildbot 2y ago

Packages existing and the software actually working are very different things. You can run rocm on unsupported GPUs like a 780m, but as soon as you hit an issue you are out of luck. And you’ll hit an issue. For example, my 780m gets 1-2 inferences from llama.cpp before dropping off the bus due to a segfault in the driver. It’s a bad enough lockup that linux can’t cleanly shutdown and will hang under hard rebooted.

slavik81 2y ago
The 780m is an integrated GPU. I specified discrete GPUs because that's what I have tested and can confirm will work. I have dozens of different AMD GPUs and I personally host most of the Debian ROCm Team's continuous integration servers. Over the past year, I have worked together with other members of the Debian project to ensure that every potentially affected ROCm library is tested on every discrete consumer AMD GPU architecture since Vega whenever a new version of a package is uploaded to Debian. FWIW, Framework Computers donated a few laptops to Debian last year, which I plan to use to enable the 780m too. I just haven't had the time yet. Fedora has some patches that add support for that architecture.
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