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Been running Linux on the A770 for about 2 years now. Very happy with the driver situation. Was a bit rough very early on, but it's nice and stable now. Recomme

Been running Linux on the A770 for about 2 years now. Very happy with the driver situation. Was a bit rough very early on, but it's nice and stable now. Recommend at least Linux 6.4, but preferably newer. I use a rolling release distro(Artix) to get up to date kernels. ML stuff can be a pain sometimes because support in pytorch and various other libraries is not as prioritised as CUDA. But I've been able to get llama.cpp working via ollama, which has experimental intel gpu support. Worked fine when I tested it, though I haven't actually used it very much, so don't quote me on it. For image gen, your best bet is to use sdnext(https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext), which supports Intel on linux officially, and will automagically install the right pytorch version, and do a bunch of trickery to get libraries that insist on CUDA to work in many of the cases. Though some things are still unsupported due to various libraries still not supporting intel on Linux. Some types of quantization are unavailable for instance. But at least if you have the A770, quantisation for image gen is not as important due to plentyful VRAM, unless you're trying to use the flux models.

immibis 2y ago
I also have an A770. Don't use it for AI, but it runs fine for general 3D use (which mostly means either Minecraft, other similarly casual games, or demoscene shaders). I'm pretty sure I'm not utilizing it fully most of the time. My main complaint is that the fan control just doesn't work. They stay at low speed or off no matter how hot the card gets, until it shuts down due to overheating. Apparently there's a firmware update to fix this, but you need Windows to flash it. You can zip-tie a spare fan somewhere pointing at the card... Secondary complaint is that it's somehow not compatible with Linux's early boot console, so there's no graphical output until the driver is loaded. You'd better have ssh enabled while setting it up. It's also incompatible with MBR/BIOS boot since it doesn't include an option ROM or whatever is needed to make that work - so I switched to UEFI (which I thought I was already using). When I ran a shader "competition" some people's code with undefined behaviour ran differently on my GPU than theirs. That's unavoidable regardless of brand and not an Intel thing at all.

immibis 2y ago

I also have an A770. Don't use it for AI, but it runs fine for general 3D use (which mostly means either Minecraft, other similarly casual games, or demoscene shaders). I'm pretty sure I'm not utilizing it fully most of the time. My main complaint is that the fan control just doesn't work. They stay at low speed or off no matter how hot the card gets, until it shuts down due to overheating. Apparently there's a firmware update to fix this, but you need Windows to flash it. You can zip-tie a spare fan somewhere pointing at the card... Secondary complaint is that it's somehow not compatible with Linux's early boot console, so there's no graphical output until the driver is loaded. You'd better have ssh enabled while setting it up. It's also incompatible with MBR/BIOS boot since it doesn't include an option ROM or whatever is needed to make that work - so I switched to UEFI (which I thought I was already using). When I ran a shader "competition" some people's code with undefined behaviour ran differently on my GPU than theirs. That's unavoidable regardless of brand and not an Intel thing at all.