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Hi there.

I wanted to run LLMs locally on my server (for better privacy), and was wondering if:

  1. I could use Intel ARC/AMD GPUs - these are often less expensive and AMD has open source drivers, which is something I like.
  2. If a PCIe x4 Gen 3 slot would be enough (it’s an x16 slot with x4 speeds) - this is an important consideration.
  3. Would 8GB of RAM (in the GPU, I believe it’s called VRAM?) be enough?

I’m looking at language models to train on my Reddit and Lemmy content, in an aim to make it write like me (and maybe even better than me? Who knows). I don’t quite know which models I will train, or how I will do so (I certainly won’t be writing anything from scratch), but I was wondering; with the explosion of FOSS AI models, maybe something like this would be possible with the hardware constraints I mentioned above?

Does the speed of the connection between the GPU and the CPU really matter in such applications?

Thanks!

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What software do you want to run?

    I’ve been doing a lot of research on this over the last 2 weeks. I have my machine in the mail, but have not tried anything myself on my own hardware.

    For Stable Diffusion, 8GBV is usually considered absolute minimum to do very basic stuff only. 16GBV or more is the basic need for a decent workflow.

    For AMD I have seen multiple sources saying to avoid it, but there are a few people that have working examples in the wild. Apparently, AMD only supports the 7k series of GPUs officially with ROCm/hips/AI stuff.

    Officially with Stable Diffusion, only nvidia is supported.