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Is a dual AMD GPU setup with 2 PCIE 4.0 x8 lane enough for something like vllm radiance or llama.cpp -sm tensor ?

Everything is in the title, I am changing my motherboard and I am on AM4 so I was wondering if I should even care about that or stick with a lower end mobo and layer split Thanks for your insights !

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  1. 2026-09-30 18:44 · r/LocalLLM
    Is a dual AMD GPU setup with 2 PCIE 4.0 x8 lane enough for something like vllm radiance or llama.cpp -sm tensor ?

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