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New comment by stephlow in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

stephlow — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:12:43 +0000

I own a single R9700 for the same reason you mentioned, looking into getting a second one. Was a lot of fiddling to get working on arch but RDNA4 and ROCm have come a long way. Every once in a while arch package updates break things but that’s not exclusive to ROCm.

LLM’s run great on it, it’s happily running gemma4 31b at the moment and I’m quite impressed. For the amount of VRAM you get it’s hard to beat, apart from the Intel cards maybe. But the driver support doesn’t seem to be that great there either.

Had some trouble with running comfyui, but it’s not my main use case, so I did not spent a lot of time figuring that out yet

New comment by stephlow in "Roland TR-808 Cowbell Rebuild"

stephlow — Sat, 07 May 2022 16:25:09 +0000

This is correct. I have a couple of analog oscillators in my modular rack and the case needs to heat up for a couple of minutes before they generate a stable pitch. Not familiar with the exact reasons to be honest.

New comment by stephlow in "Our smartphones are stuffed with photos. The challenge is finding the good ones"

stephlow — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 16:53:55 +0000

I feel your pain, I’ve been there. If you go to the person in the photos app, there’s an option to feature that person less in memories.