AI Discussions

[gandrew]

hi, 

I'm looking at the Ryzen 8700g and 8600g processors:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/amd-ryzen-7-8700g.html

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/amd-ryzen-5-8600g.html

the specs both of which states:

AI Engine Capabilities

Brand NameAMD Ryzen™ AI

AMD Ryzen™ AIAvailable

PerformanceUp to 16 TOPS

But that in the Ryzen AI s/w documentation

https://ryzenai.docs.amd.com/en/latest/inst.html

Ryzen 8700g and 8600g processors are not stated

Neither is Linux support stated, and I'd need to run it in Linux as that is my main desktop platform.

Is Ryzen 8700g and 8600g processors supported and where could I find the s/w / drivers for Linux, open sourced versions e.g. in github is good as well.

[LatticeMage]

I want 8700G able to run llama2 on linux also

[ThomasAMD]

The XRT driver is now publicly available on Linux (https://github.com/amd/xdna-driver), but the rest of the Linux SW stack for Ryzen AI is not ready yet. AMD is currently working on full Linux support and an official release date will be communicated when appropriate.

[gandrew]

thanks, this is 'important' as these days there are a lot of varied 'NPU' implementations, hopefully as this is integrated and runs on X86_64 that it becomes a commonly used 'NPU' implementation.

and no less as many popular platforms used to test models are often python driven (e.g. Tensorflow, Pytorch) and often in *Linux* being native X86_64 and with integrated NPU makes it possible to experiment on a home desktop.

they could help with everything from automated captioning of videos (e.g. during video meetings), ocr etc etc.