AMD MI50 on Debian Testing is doing great and getting better.
A user on Reddit's r/LocalLLaMA shared performance benchmarks for AMD MI50 GPUs running the llama.cpp software on Debian Testing. The benchmarks, conducted using the llama-benchy tool with the unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF model, showed that the Vulkan backend generally outperformed ROCm. Specifically, Vulkan with Multi-Threaded Processing (MTP) yielded the best results for the user's long-context tasks, achieving higher tokens per second. AI
IMPACT Provides practical performance data for users running local LLMs on specific AMD hardware, potentially guiding optimization efforts.