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llamacpp-rocm
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Fresh builds of llama.cpp with AMD ROCm™ acceleration
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You would get similar performance. Lemonade is designed as a turnkey (optimized for AMD Hardware) for local AI models. The software helps you manage backends (llama.cpp, flm, whispercpp, stable‑diffusion.cpp, etc) for different GenAI modalities from a single utility.
On the performance side, lemonade comes bundled with ROCm and Vulkan. These are sourced from https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/llamacpp-rocm and https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases respectively.
In Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPUBeen running lemonade for some time on my Strix Halo box. It dispatches out to other backends that they include, like diffusion and llama. I actually don't like their combined server, and what I use instead is their llama CPP build for ROCm.
https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/llamacpp-rocm
But I'm not doing anything with images or audio. I get about 50 tokens a second with GPT OSS 120B. As others have pointed out, the NPU is used for low-powered, small models that are "always on", so it's not a huge win for the standard chatbot use case.
In Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU