AMD Hipfire - a new inference engine optimized for AMD GPU's

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Hipfire is presented as a new inference engine optimized for AMD GPUs, with support aimed at more than just the newest hardware.
The project uses a special mq4 quantization method and provides related model releases via a Hugging Face account.
The article notes uncertainty about the resulting quantization quality, but highlights enthusiasm from an RDNA3-focused perspective due to increased attention on AMD.
A separate LLM benchmarking site (Localmaxxing) is cited as showing dramatic inference speedups from hipfire.
An edit clarifies that hipfire is not necessarily officially connected to AMD.

Came across hipfire the other day. It's a brand new inference engine focused on all AMD GPU's (not just the latest).

Github.

It uses a special mq4 quantization method. The hipfire creator is pumping out models on huggingface.

I don't know enough about quantization to know how good these quants are in terms of quality, but as an RDNA3 aficionado I'm happy AMD is getting some attention.

Localmaxxing is a new LLM benchmarking site, and shows some pretty dramatic speedups for hipfire inference.

Edit: I should have just said hipfire - I don't think this is connected to AMD officially.

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