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Introduction

Work in progress: This wiki is being actively expanded from Discord research and fork release notes. Many tuning recipes and throughput numbers are community-reported and have not been independently reproduced here. See Verification status for what is solid vs what still needs checking on your hardware.

Welcome to the GFX1030 Wiki — a focused, hands-on knowledge base for running LLM inference on AMD gfx1030 (RDNA2 / Navi 21) GPUs, with a strong bias toward the Radeon PRO V620 and the purpose-built tooling collected here.

gfx1030 is the LLVM/ROCm target for the Navi 21 “Sienna Cichlid” die. It powers the consumer Radeon RX 6800 / 6800 XT / 6900 XT / 6950 XT and the workstation/data-center PRO W6800 and PRO V620. These cards are officially supported by ROCm on Linux, which makes them a cost-effective platform for modern LLMs — but getting the most out of them (power tuning, multi-GPU P2P, and RDNA-tuned kernels) takes a bit of extra work. That’s what this wiki documents.

Read it in this order

  1. Getting started — hardware check, ROCm, optional V620 tuning, first container.
  2. llama.cpp or vLLM — which stack matches the model and card count.
  3. The matching section: vLLM onboard (V620) / vLLM overview, or llama.cpp.
  4. Troubleshooting when a command fails. Verification status says which numbers are solid.

Host firmware (the machine never POSTs) and Flash-Next serve lines are specialist pages. Skip them until you need them.

What this wiki focuses on

New here? Start with Getting Started. Card identity is on Supported Hardware.

Community Discord

Much of this wiki is distilled from the gfx1030 club Discord — live tuning tips, fork releases, and multi-GPU benches land there first.

  • Server: gfx1030 club
  • Join: https://discord.gg/mESex2aBp
  • Useful channels: #vllm-rdna, #llamacpp, #general, #benchmarks, #harnesses, #lmcache, #motherboard

When turning Discord threads into docs, follow the privacy rules in Contributing.

Disclaimer: This is a community wiki, not affiliated with or endorsed by AMD. Kernel patches and power-cap changes are done at your own risk. Always cross-check against the official ROCm documentation. Contributions welcome — see Contributing.