Whilst this is an excellent post from vLLM, one of the truly baffling things from either their team or AMDs team, is how much the workstation grade AMD r9700 has been ignored.
Stock vLLM runs so slowly on these cards compared with vLLM forks like Radiance. Going from say 20-30t/s gen, to 150-200t/s
Most of AMD/vLLM work seems to be around their data centre cards, or the AMD AI Halo/Ryzen and ignores the R9700 AI Pro.
Yeah, as a business AMD should first care about getting their DC grade hardware optimized for inference workloads. It's unfortunate that most of HN discussion has devolved to me-ish.
Stock vLLM runs so slowly on these cards compared with vLLM forks like Radiance. Going from say 20-30t/s gen, to 150-200t/s
Most of AMD/vLLM work seems to be around their data centre cards, or the AMD AI Halo/Ryzen and ignores the R9700 AI Pro.
Really wish this would change.
They might in the future but future is in the future ofc
Edit: to be clear I think it's ridiculous they don't but from a company's stand point it doesn't make much sense