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AMD MI50 GPUs show strong performance with llama.cpp on Debian

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.

RANK_REASON User-generated benchmarks and installation guide for open-source software and hardware. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/moderately-extremist ·

    AMD MI50 on Debian Testing is doing great and getting better.

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>There is probably some relevant information to other cards here but my benchmarks are on dual MI50 cards because that is what I have, and thought I would share with the community. Install instructions at the end. I'll put a dump of the full llama…