Performance of llama.cpp with Vulkan

[netrunnereve]

This is similar to the Apple Silicon benchmark thread, but for Vulkan! Many improvements have been made to the Vulkan backend in the past month and I think it's good to consolidate and discuss our results here.

We'll be testing the Llama 2 7B model like the other thread to keep things consistent, and use Q4_0 as it's simple to compute and small enough to fit on a 4GB GPU. You can download it here.

Instructions

wget https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-GGUF/resolve/main/llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
cd llama.cpp
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DGGML_VULKAN=on -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make
llama-bench -m ../../llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf -ngl 100 (add any extra options here)

Share your llama-bench results along with the git hash and Vulkan info string in the comments. Feel free to try other models, compare backends, and so forth, but only valid runs will be placed on the scoreboard.

Vulkan Scoreboard for Llama 2 7B, Q4_0 (sorted by tg128)

GPU	pp512 t/s	tg128 t/s	Commit	Comments
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX	2062.17 ± 5.36	143.99 ± 0.23	53ff6b9	Best single GPU result in multi GPU system
Nvidia RTX 3090	3301.47 ± 33.76	123.72 ± 0.14	0d52a69
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT	863.03 ± 0.70	91.59 ± 0.40	0d52a69
AMD Radeon Pro VII	312.02 ± 0.97	70.17 ± 0.25	0d52a69
Nvidia RTX 3080	1706.07 ± 139.33	62.16 ± 1.98	4da69d1
Intel Arc A770	95.52 ± 0.12	44.49 ± 0.03	0d52a69
AMD RX 470	161.47 ± 0.43	33.45 ± 0.04	4da69d1
AMD FirePro W8100	137.10 ± 0.44	28.51 ± 0.12	4da69d1
Intel Arc A750	88.86 ± 0.14	27.57 ± 0.03	8d59d91
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme	199.36 ± 7.02	18.77 ± 0.02	53ff6b9
Apple M2 Macbook Air	38.67 ± 0.03	11.07 ± 0.04	017cc5f	Asahi Linux

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AMD FirePro W8100

ggml_vulkan: 0 = AMD Radeon FirePro W8100 (RADV HAWAII) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 0 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: none
build: 4da69d1a (4351)

model	size	params	backend	ngl	threads	sm	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	8	none	pp512	137.10 ± 0.44
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	8	none	tg128	28.51 ± 0.12

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AMD RX 470

ggml_vulkan: 1 = AMD Radeon RX 470 Graphics (RADV POLARIS10) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 0 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: none
build: 4da69d1a (4351)

model	size	params	backend	ngl	threads	main_gpu	sm	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	8	1	none	pp512	161.47 ± 0.43
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	8	1	none	tg128	33.45 ± 0.04

[max-krasnyansky]

ubuntu 24.04, vulkan and cuda installed from official APT packages.

ggml_vulkan: 0 = NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (NVIDIA) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 32 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	99	pp512	1706.07 ± 139.33
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	99	tg128	62.16 ± 1.98

build: 4da69d1 (4351)

vs CUDA on the same build/setup

ggml_cuda_init: GGML_CUDA_FORCE_MMQ:    no
ggml_cuda_init: GGML_CUDA_FORCE_CUBLAS: no
ggml_cuda_init: found 1 CUDA devices:
  Device 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, compute capability 8.6, VMM: yes

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	CUDA	99	pp512	4499.47 ± 60.66
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	CUDA	99	tg128	131.01 ± 0.43

build: 4da69d1 (4351)

[hkbu-kennycheng]

Macbook Air M2 on Asahi Linux

ggml_vulkan: Found 1 Vulkan devices:
ggml_vulkan: 0 = Apple M2 (G14G B0) (Honeykrisp) | uma: 1 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 32 | matrix cores: none

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	38.67 ± 0.03
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	11.07 ± 0.04

[build build: 017cc5f](build: 017cc5f)

[hkbu-kennycheng]

Gentoo Linux on ROG Ally (2023) Ryzen Z1 Extreme

ggml_vulkan: Found 1 Vulkan devices:
ggml_vulkan: 0 = AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV GFX1103_R1) (radv) | uma: 1 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	199.36 ± 7.02
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	18.77 ± 0.02

[build build: 53ff6b9](build: 53ff6b9)

[hkbu-kennycheng]

ggml_vulkan: Found 4 Vulkan devices:
ggml_vulkan: 0 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat
ggml_vulkan: 1 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat
ggml_vulkan: 2 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat
ggml_vulkan: 3 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	1545.39 ± 6.58
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	88.12 ± 1.06

[build build: 53ff6b9](build: 53ff6b9)

[0cc4m]

Cool setup! Could you also post the result of 1, 2 and 3 7900 XTX GPUs? You can use only the first GPU with export GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0, the first two with export GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 and so on.

[hkbu-kennycheng]

env GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 ./build/bin/llama-bench -m llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf -ngl 100
ggml_vulkan: Found 1 Vulkan devices:
ggml_vulkan: 0 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	2022.59 ± 10.08
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	136.24 ± 0.30

env GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1 ./build/bin/llama-bench -m llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf -ngl 100
ggml_vulkan: Found 1 Vulkan devices:
ggml_vulkan: 0 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	2039.24 ± 18.08
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	140.68 ± 2.09

env GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES=2 ./build/bin/llama-bench -m llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf -ngl 100
ggml_vulkan: Found 1 Vulkan devices:
ggml_vulkan: 0 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	2062.17 ± 5.36
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	143.99 ± 0.23

env GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES=3 ./build/bin/llama-bench -m llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf -ngl 100
ggml_vulkan: Found 1 Vulkan devices:
ggml_vulkan: 0 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	1997.04 ± 5.78
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	136.98 ± 1.73

env GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 ./build/bin/llama-bench -m llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf -ngl 100
ggml_vulkan: Found 2 Vulkan devices:
ggml_vulkan: 0 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat
ggml_vulkan: 1 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	1668.19 ± 12.78
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	100.62 ± 0.66

env GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2 ./build/bin/llama-bench -m llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf -ngl 100
ggml_vulkan: Found 3 Vulkan devices:
ggml_vulkan: 0 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat
ggml_vulkan: 1 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat
ggml_vulkan: 2 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	1566.38 ± 8.01
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	97.96 ± 1.13

env GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3 ./build/bin/llama-bench -m llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf -ngl 100
ggml_vulkan: Found 4 Vulkan devices:
ggml_vulkan: 0 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat
ggml_vulkan: 1 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat
ggml_vulkan: 2 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat
ggml_vulkan: 3 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 64 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	1484.04 ± 6.01
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	91.48 ± 0.63

[netrunnereve]

For this multi GPU case getting Vulkan to support #6017 pipeline parallelism might help improve the prompt processing speed.

[hkbu-kennycheng]

@netrunnereve I updated the commit id in all my result.

[0cc4m]

build: 0d52a69 (4439)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (NVIDIA)

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	3301.47 ± 33.76
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	123.72 ± 0.14

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (RADV NAVI21) (radv)

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	863.03 ± 0.70
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	91.59 ± 0.40

AMD Radeon (TM) Pro VII (RADV VEGA20) (radv)

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	312.02 ± 0.97
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	70.17 ± 0.25

Intel(R) Arc(tm) A770 Graphics (DG2) (Intel open-source Mesa driver)

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	pp512	95.52 ± 0.12
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	tg128	44.49 ± 0.03

[0cc4m]

@netrunnereve Some of the tg results here are a little low, I think they might be debug builds. The cmake step (at least on Linux) might require cmake .. -DGGML_VULKAN=on -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

[netrunnereve]

I've added -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release to the post, but honestly I've always built without this flag for both Vulkan and CPU backends and never noticed a difference in performance. Having Release set might strip the debug symbols but it shouldn't affect the compiler optimizations.

My release numbers for the RX 470 are basically identical to the ones I posted earlier without the flag.

model	size	params	backend	ngl	threads	main_gpu	sm	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	8	1	none	pp512	160.08 ± 0.38
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	100	8	1	none	tg128	33.41 ± 0.15

[0cc4m]

Maybe not in your case, but some other results are suspiciously low in tg (for example the RTX 3080)

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Build: 8d59d91 (4450)
ggml_vulkan: 0 = Intel(R) Arc(tm) A750 Graphics (DG2) (Intel open-source Mesa driver) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | warp size: 32 | matrix cores: none

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	99	pp512	88.86 ± 0.14
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	Vulkan	99	tg128	27.57 ± 0.03

Lack of proper Xe coopmat support in the ANV driver is a setback honestly.
Compared to SYCL:

model	size	params	backend	ngl	test	t/s
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	SYCL	99	pp512	1616.11 ± 5.28
llama 7B Q4_0	3.56 GiB	6.74 B	SYCL	99	tg128	36.64 ± 0.05

edit: retested both with the default batch size.

[0cc4m]

Lack of proper Xe coopmat support in the ANV driver is a setback honestly.

Kinda, but this is not the main problem. There's something about my matrix multiplication shader that the Intel GPUs really don't like, but I don't know what exactly. Intel doesn't provide a profiler that I could use to learn more, as far as I know. There's some tool for Windows, but my A770 is on Linux.

[qnixsynapse]

Intel doesn't provide a profiler

They do have vtune but it needs a third party kernel module to run which I don't like tbh.

Also, I don't know whether it supports Vulkan apps or not. But it does seem to support opencl.