I may or may not have splurged on a 128GB AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 (strix halo) system for ‘AI stuff’ (told you I was a noob).

I’ve been running Ubuntu on it with the AMD drivers (think its ROCm?), ollama and seems to be working fine.

An LLM told me to change the RAM/VRAM ratio to 50:50 (so 64GB for the CPU, 64GB for the GPU). I dunno if that was correct, seems like a waste tbh. Feels like I could give the GPU more resources and run bigger models.

I’ve read about Lemonade being better than Ollama on strix halo? Also, I realised that I might not be using the NPU as extra work is required to get that up and running.

I’m looking for advice from users on the same hardware. What OS are you using? How do you have the RAM/VRAM ratio configured? What’s your stack? That sorta thing.

PS - If my wife asks, the machine only cost like £250 and is a second-hand floor model.

  • jobbies@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I’ve been looking for such an amazing deal to fall into my own lap 😅

    You know the more I lie about the cost, the more I believe it. Apply enough delusion and anything can become reality 😅

    I’d love to hear your plans though!

    I’m a techy but to be honest my lack of knowledge of AI is shocking. I’ve heard of ‘MoE’ but I’ve no idea what is means. Never heard of Colibri. I’ve been messing around with a few models, so far Qwen is my favourite - its slower than others but its pretty dependable.

    As for plans, who knows. Start with getting Hermes and opencode running and take it from there!