#llama.cpp

Running Lemonade on Strix Halo (EVO-X2): Vulkan Shared Memory Leaks and ROCm Stability

Real-world testing of AMD Lemonade v10.0.1 on Ryzen AI Max+ 395. LLM, image generation, speech recognition, and TTS running simultaneously, NPU Hybrid execution, Vulkan vs ROCm benchmarks, and discovering shared memory leaks.

AMD's Lemonade Local AI Server Bundles GPU, NPU, and Multi-Modal Inference Under One Roof

Lemonade is AMD's open-source local AI server that manages multiple backends like llama.cpp and FastFlowLM across GPU/NPU/CPU, serving text, image, and audio generation through an OpenAI-compatible API.

Scaling Qwen3.5-35B-A3B from 4K to 65K Context with Only 800MB Extra VRAM

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is an SSM+Attention hybrid where only 10 of 40 layers use KV cache. Expanding ctx-size from 4096 to 65536 on llama-server added just 800MB VRAM with zero speed loss. Includes q8_0 KV quantization benchmarks and TurboQuant status.

Radeon 8060S (gfx1151) Vulkan Broke Again After AMD Driver Update

After updating to AMD Software 26.3.1 on a GMKtec EVO-X2 (Ryzen AI Max+ 395), Vulkan backend fails to allocate device memory properly and falls back to CPU. Investigation and workaround by changing BIOS VRAM allocation from 48GB/16GB to 32GB/32GB.

Packaging the BERT + Qwen OCR Correction Pipeline as a Python Tool

The three-stage pipeline of BERT perplexity scan → LLM judgment → escalation packaged as a cross-platform Python tool. The installer automatically downloads llama-server and GGUF models.

The Reason Qwen 3.5 Failed on Radeon 8060S Was an Outdated AMD Driver

Isolating the cause of Qwen 3.5 failing on ROCm/Vulkan via CPU inference, llama-server, and LM Studio — an AMD driver update resolved everything.