AMD Radeon 8050S “Strix Halo” Linux Graphics Performance Review
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#3I would have liked to see some discussions on cost and comparisons to dGPUs in the laptop space. I can see it's beating the Intel laptops, but that is expected based on specs.
Maybe I'm missing something?
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#4I think I’d buy something with Strix Halo or Strix Point if there was official ROCm support. As of 6.4.1 from earlier this month there’s still not, as I understand it. I’d be delighted to be corrected on this matter.
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#5I would have liked to see some discussions on cost and comparisons to dGPUs in the laptop space. I can see it's beating the Intel laptops, but that is expected based on specs. Maybe I'm missing something?
It appears it's using significantly more power than the Intel ones as well. I would be more interested in GPU computing performance for LLMs than graphics, as all I need is a frame buffer.
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#6I think I’d buy something with Strix Halo or Strix Point if there was official ROCm support. As of 6.4.1 from earlier this month there’s still not, as I understand it. I’d be delighted to be corrected on this matter.
There is (unofficial) ROCm support for Strix Halo with ROCm 6.4.1. But like Llama.cpp and such were seg faulting but ROCR-based OpenCL was working and other workloads.
ROCm GPU Compute Performance With AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ "Strix Halo": https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-strix-halo-rocm-benchmar...
Re: AMD Radeon 8050S “Strix Halo” Linux Graphics Performance Review
#7I think I’d buy something with Strix Halo or Strix Point if there was official ROCm support. As of 6.4.1 from earlier this month there’s still not, as I understand it. I’d be delighted to be corrected on this matter.
What’s AMD's strategy in not having consumer chip support for ROCm? It's puzzling. No way to get critical mass of development interest if the bar to entry is high.
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#8I would have liked to see some discussions on cost and comparisons to dGPUs in the laptop space. I can see it's beating the Intel laptops, but that is expected based on specs. Maybe I'm missing something?
We have a GPU/CPU fusion chip that is unremarkable, performant and runs well under linux out of the box. There isn't a lot of novelty in that which is, in itself, pretty remarkable.
Plus, although I can't really swear to understand how these chips work, my read is this is basically a graphics card that can be configured with 64GB of memory. If I'm not misreading that it actually sounds quite interesting; even AMDs hopeless compute drivers might potentially be useful for AI work if enough RAM gets thrown into the mix. Although my burn wounds from buying AMD haven't healed yet so I'll let someone else fund that experiment.
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#9Valve, could we please get a Ryzen 390-ish Steamdeck platform refresh? Or maybe if Intel wants game devs to test on their GPUs they'd cut a small deal to make an Intel Xe refresh.
Re: AMD Radeon 8050S “Strix Halo” Linux Graphics Performance Review
#10I think I’d buy something with Strix Halo or Strix Point if there was official ROCm support. As of 6.4.1 from earlier this month there’s still not, as I understand it. I’d be delighted to be corrected on this matter.
What’s AMD's strategy in not having consumer chip support for ROCm? It's puzzling. No way to get critical mass of development interest if the bar to entry is high.
Their plan appears to be TheRock [0]. Further open sourcing and engaging the community and leveraging that to expand support faster.
There are some recent discussions on YouTube about it [1], including one with a senior VP [2].
[0]: https://github.com/ROCm/TheRock [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tASUo7UqNw&t=4551 [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8JOtS2Tew