Been using AMD gpus for years due to their superb Linux support. Would like to play around with AI image generation completely offline so a Nvidia gpu is kinda must. Besides that I do some gaming as well.

Currently I have AMD RX 6750 XT and am considering replacing it with a RTX 5060 TI with 16 GB vram. How well does Nvidia gpus work in modern Linux systems. I’m running Tumbleweed with KDE plasma on X11.

Other hardware is Ryzen 7 7700X and an Asrock B650 PG Lightning motherboard.

Edit: Been using InvokeAI so far but cpu only is super slow.

  • verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
    2·
    1 day ago

    Utter shait ~ 30-50% worse performance, so you’d be looking at a downgrande after spending all that money. And that’s on bleeding edge like Cachy, go with mint or similar and the differential is even worse. I would hold off on upgrading for the next 1-2 years, it’ll be dirt cheap once the bubble inevitably bursts.

    edit: Dafuq u doing using cpu only on invoke, it supports AMD GPUs out of the box without 0 user intervention other than selecting AMD GPU during Installation…

    • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fiOPEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Wish it was that simple. If I select AMD device to use it won’t work. It crashes with: RuntimeError: HIP error: invalid device function.

      Edit: Have a feeling it might be trying to use the igpu for some reason.

      • verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
        2·
        1 day ago

        Just checked RDNA2 may not be fully supported HIP. Check this REDDIT guide for llama based adventures.

        Did u run

        rocm-smi

        to check if you have rocm installed?

        Check this issue at invoke’s hub for your same problem.

        critically, don’t forget:

        #!/bin/bash

        export HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0

        bash invoke.sh

        Regarding upgrades

        The 9060XT would be a much better choice than the 5060 if one uses Linux and is upgrading, although, seeing price trends lately, nothing looks like a good choice at all at the moment. Maybe a second hand 7800xt, that would be a 20-30% upgrade.

        • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fiOPEnglish
          1·
          23 hours ago

          Did u run

          rocm-smi

          It gives:

          ========================================== ROCm System Management Interface ==========================================
==================================================== Concise Info ====================================================
Device  Node  IDs              Temp    Power    Partitions          SCLK    MCLK     Fan  Perf  PwrCap  VRAM%  GPU%
(DID,     GUID)  (Edge)  (Avg)    (Mem, Compute, ID)
======================================================================================================================
0       1     0x73df,   60335  40.0°C  8.0W     N/A, N/A, 0         500Mhz  96Mhz    0%   auto  220.0W  19%    0%
1       2     0x164e,   6110   39.0°C  29.047W  N/A, N/A, 0         N/A     3000Mhz  0%   auto  N/A     4%     0%
======================================================================================================================
================================================ End of ROCm SMI Log =================================================
        • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fiOPEnglish
          1·
          23 hours ago

          You’re a life saver! Did the force reinstall mentioned in that github issue and ran Invoke with the command you provided. Now it runs with gpu rendering 🥳. Though I ran out of vram 🤣.

          • verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
            1·
            21 hours ago

            I’m happy it worked, props to the people helping on github, they’re the real heroes here, I’m just the messenger! Have fun m8!