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Is there an alternative to base llama.cpp for RDNA2 gpus in general with local LLM usage ?

Most of the stuff built for amd gpus posted here or ai in general depends on WMMA which exists only from RDNA3 and up. In image-video generation I can bypass it with triton some of the time. But here, a thing works or not on rdna2. Something specific like strata for example has a rdna2 path which w…

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  1. 2026-10-19 13:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Is there an alternative to base llama.cpp for RDNA2 gpus in general with local LLM usage ?

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