I've got my hands on an AMD Instinct MI100. It's about the same price used as a V100 but on paper has more TOPS (V100 14TOPS vs MI100 23TOPS) also the HBM has faster clock so the memory bandwidth is 1.2TB/s. For quantized inference it's a beast (MI50 was also surprisingly fast)
For LORA training with this quick test I could not make the bnb config works so I'm running the FT on the fill size model.
Will share all the install, setup and setting I've learned in a blog post, together with the cooling shroud 3D design.
š Just launched: A toolkit of 20 powerful AI tools that journalists can use right now - transcribe, analyze, create. 100% free & open-source.
Been testing all these tools myself and created a searchable collection of the most practical ones - from audio transcription to image generation to document analysis. No coding needed, no expensive subscriptions.
Some highlights I've tested personally: - Private, on-device transcription with speaker ID in 100+ languages using Whisper - Website scraping that just works - paste a URL, get structured data - Local image editing with tools like Finegrain (impressive results) - Document chat using Qwen 2.5 72B (handles technical papers well)
Sharing this early because the best tools come from the community. Drop your favorite tools in the comments or join the discussion on what to add next!