Ollama AMD Graphics Card Support Preview

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. This update enables hardware acceleration for all Ollama features, expanding accessibility for users with AMD hardware on these two operating systems.

Supported AMD Hardware

Ollama's preview support extends to three primary families of AMD graphics cards and accelerators:

AMD Radeon RX Series

Consumer-grade GPUs including the following models:

7900 XTX, 7900 XT, 7900 GRE, 7800 XT, 7700 XT, 7600 XT, 7600
6950 XT, 6900 XTX, 6900 XT, 6800 XT, 6800
Vega 64, Vega 56

AMD Radeon PRO Series

Professional workstation GPUs including:

W7900, W7800, W7700, W7600, W7500
W6900X, W6800X Duo, W6800X, W6800
V620, V420, V340, V320
Vega II Duo, Vega II, VII, SSG

AMD Instinct Series

Data center accelerators including:

MI300X, MI300A, MI300
MI250X, MI250, MI210, MI200
MI100, MI60, MI50

Installation and Setup

To utilize AMD acceleration, users must download and install the latest version of Ollama for either Linux or Windows. Support for additional AMD graphics cards is listed as coming soon.

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