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llama.cpp B9387 Significant AMD/ROCm PP Update

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28 Jul
worth upgrading Rocm?
OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMA
29 May
Other feeds and industry voices
7 May
AMD to release slottable GPU

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Might be another option of us local LLM folks. I am very curious on the price. </p> <p><a

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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>

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
17 May
ROCm 7.13 nightly adds strix halo optimizations

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/ROCm-7.13-Released">https://www.phoronix.com/news/ROCm-7.13-Released</a> Quote: ...new optimizations for

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
20 Aug
Did AMD just fucking fix ROCm and nobody told me?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>We know that using ROCm is a disgrace compared to CUDA, especially if you don't have &quot;current&quot; hardware. </p> <p>Guess what? I just

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
10 May
NCCL-Free Tensor Parallelism on Dual Blackwell PCIe llama.cpp b9095 released!

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>b9095 finally makes -sm tensor work on dual consumer Blackwell PCIe GPUs without NCCL</p> <p>If youre on dual Blackwell gpus this look like it

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
5 May
MTP on strix halo with llama.cpp (PR #22673)

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t4uj9h/mtp_on_strix_halo_with_llamacpp_pr_22673/"> <img alt="MTP on strix halo with llama.cpp (PR #22673)"

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
18 May
llama.cpp MTP support landed - Qwen3.6 27B at 2.44× on a Strix Halo, 2.17× on a RTX 3090 rig

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>PR #22673 (commit 4f13cb7) landed MTP speculative decoding in mainline llama.cpp on May 16. I tested it on two separate rigs.</p> <p>Qwen3.6 27B,

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