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Why my 7900xtx is 2x slower with Vulkan compared ot ROCm?

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5 May
Vulkan backend outperforms ROCm on Strix Halo (gfx1151) — llama.cpp benchmark

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Just ran some llama-bench comparisons between ROCm and Vulkan backends on my Strix Halo system. Vulkan came out ahead, which surprised me.</p>

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2 Oct
AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform OS updated with ROCm 10.0, Linux 7.2

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ww49o9/amd_ryzen_ai_developer_platform_os_updated_with/"> <img alt="AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform OS

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13 Apr
FYI, Step 3.5 Flash has better perf and context is 1/4 the price in llama.cpp

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So i recently updated LMstudio after a long pause and updated my llama.cpp runtimes too.. i was shocked.. i thought maybe something like

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1 May
Whats the latest status on 7900xtx multi-GPU setups?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I am currently running dual RTX 5060 ti 16gb (both of which are easy to sell or re-use in other PCs at home) and monitoring the used market for

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7 May
ROCm Status in mid 2026 [D]

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey folks</p> <p>I'm starting to hear that ROCm works fine for inference now. But, I've not seen any reports on how viable it is for training. I

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27 Apr
Question to users of Linux + Vulkan + NVIDIA: have you tried new Ubuntu?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I know Ubuntu racoon has been released several days ago. I wonder if new mesa / vulkan / nouveau drivers made inference on NVIDIA any faster?</p>

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