Is... is this named because they have a lemon they're trying to make the most of?
If life keeps giving it them, they should instead invent a combustible lemon.
Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
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#32Re: Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
If life keeps giving it them, they should instead invent a combustible lemon.
Do they know who you are? They're the guys who are going to blow your house up ... with the lemons.
Re: Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
#34Anyone compare to ollama? I had good success with latest ollama with ROCm 7.4 on 9070 XT a few days ago
Seconded. Currently on ollama for local inference, but I am curious how it compares.
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#36Re: Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
#37I have been using lemonade for nearly a year already. On Strix Halo I am using nothing else - although kyuz0's toolboxes are also nice ( https://kyuz0.github.io/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes/ ) Nowadays you get TTS, STT, text & image generation and image editing should also be possible. Besides being able to run via rocm, vulkan or on CPU, GPU and NPU. Quite a lot of options. They have a quite good and pragmatic pace in d…
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#38Feels like this is sitting somewhere between Ollama and something like LM Studio, but with a stronger focus on being a unified “runtime” rather than just model serving. The interesting part to me isn’t just local inference, but how much orchestration it’s trying to handle (text, image, audio, etc). That’s usually where things get messy when running models locally. Curious how much of this is actually abstraction vs j…
It’s portable in the sense it will install on any of the supported OS using CPU or vulkan backends. But it only supports out of the box ROCM builds and AMD NPUs. There is a way to override which llama.cpp version it uses if you want to run it on CUDA, but that adds more overhead to manage.
If you have an AMD machine and want to run local models with minimal headache…it’s really the easiest method.
This runs on my NAS, handles my home assistant setup.
I have a strix halo and another server running various CUDA cards I manage manually by updating to bleeding edge versions of llama.cpp or vllm.
Re: Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
#39Is... is this named because they have a lemon they're trying to make the most of?
Re: Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
#40I’ve read the website and the news announcement, and I still don’t understand what it is. An alternative to LM Studio? Does it support MLX or metal on Macs? I’m assuming it will optimize things for AMD, but are you at a disadvantage using other GPUs?
It also has endpoints that are compatible with OpenAI, Ollama, and Anthropic so you can throw any tool that is compatible with those and it will just run.