GM. Finally joined team Red and picked myself up a 9700 XT to replace my aging RTX 3070. Officially on Wayland and really impressed how AMD GPUs just work out of the box on Linux! Now to get ROCm installed so I can run this bad boy through it's paces on Ollama
Discussion
I think without cuda you're gonna have a bad time but I'm interested in how you like it
We'll see. Supposedly parity is mostly there with support for pytorch and tensorflow. I'll report back 😁
gonna follow because i'm on team red since the 5k radeons and i love me a ryzen, simplest, highest cached CPUs on the market, not even just lower price but actually better performance for bulk compute (on the CPU at least) i did a test on a gen1 ryzen 7 back in 2018 that showed they had 14Gb/s (ie 96gbit) cache memory speed and 19mb, more than 2x comparable intels and it really shows when you do heavy processing on them
the "zen architecture" is essentially a micro SAN, btw, which is very different to intels... they have a more complicated structure, literally they can just stack these things on a bigger die with the same interconnect, that's how we have the EPYC and Threadripper - their scaling cost was way lower
I do miss Ryzen. Used to run a 1700x CPU, but main a 10700k now that's been going strong. CPU and mobo upgrade is probably due soon, but need to finish the Proxmox home lab build first. You running an AM5 setup?
not yet, got a cheap game box and threw a 7800xt into it, ryzen 5 pro 4650 is the CPU, it is pretty nice, comparable to a gen1 ryzen 7
plan to in the future but i'm a bit sad about how pissweak USB-C is in many of the motherboards... i want something with 20gbit of capacity, and a 2.5gbit ethernet
probably not gonna transport this lil box with me when i migrate in the near future, and get a nice new thing with the am5 and a ryzen9 to start with, probably will carry the 7800 along, it's a nice card, plays all my games smooth on FHD