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llama.cpp b12057 adds ROCm 10 and Snapdragon support
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Why it matters
- →ROCm 10.0 support removes AMD GPU users from being second-class citizens in local inference.
- →Snapdragon Linux binaries enable AI acceleration on ARM laptops with Adreno/Hexagon hardware.
- →CUDA 13.4 inclusion ensures compatibility with the latest NVIDIA driver stacks.
llama.cpp has released build b12057, expanding hardware support to include ROCm 10.0 for Linux and Windows, alongside new binaries for Linux ARM64 Snapdragon devices featuring Adreno GPU and Hexagon NPU acceleration. The update also adds CUDA 13.4 libraries for both x64 and arm64 architectures on Ubuntu and Windows, while temporarily disabling KleidiAI support on macOS Apple Silicon. These changes significantly broaden the range of consumer and enterprise hardware capable of running local large language models without relying solely on NVIDIA GPUs.
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