ollama VS mlc-llm

Download: Go to https://ollama.com/ and click on the download link for your operating system.

Most AI resume tools call out to OpenAI or Anthropic and charge you for every request. Persona supports Ollama — which means you can run the AI model locally on your own hardware, with zero API costs and zero data leaving your machine.

To solve these, we built a stack that prioritizes integrity over ease. The centerpiece is Ollama, running the mxbai-embed-large model locally. This is the engine that translates human thought into high-dimensional coordinates.

Ollama for model serving

Fully offline: Point it at Ollama or LM Studio. Zero cost, nothing leaves your network.

Recommended hardware: The RTX 3060 with 12 GB VRAM is the budget king here — all these models fit with room to spare for KV cache overhead, even Gemma 4:12B (which needs ~8.5–9 GB with overhead). An RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB gives you more headroom. On the Apple side, any M2 or M3 MacBook with 16 GB unified memory handles these models comfortably via Ollama's Metal backend.

This guide shows how to swap out every cloud API with a local Ollama server running qwen3-coder:30b. Same tools, same workflows, no data leaving your network.

Related: 35B MoE on 2× 1080 Ti · Ollama

The sample is a tiny console app running entirely against a local Ollama model — no cloud keys, and every HTTP call is traced so I can see exactly what goes over the wire (complete sample code). There's a single skill on disk:

irm https://ollama.com/install.ps1 | iex

It depends on what you mean by "this." MLC's catch is that you need to define/compile models for it with TVM. Here is the list of supported model architectures: https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm/blob/main/python/mlc_llm/m...

llama.cpp has a much bigger supported model list, as does vLLM and of course PyTorch/HF transformers covers everything else, all of which work w/ ROCm on RDNA3 w/o too much fuss these days.

For inference, the biggest caveat is that Flash Attention is only an aotriton implementation, which besides being less performant sometimes, also doesn't support SWA. For CDNA there is a better CK-based version of FA, but CK doesn't not have RDNA support. There are a couple people at AMD apparently working on native FlexAttention, os I guess we'll how that turns out.

(Note the recent SemiAccurate piece was on training, which I'd agree is in a much worse state (I have personal experience with it being often broken for even the simplest distributed training runs). Funnily enough, if you're running simple fine tunes on a single RDNA3 card, you'll probably have a better time. OOTB, a 7900 XTX will train at about the same speed as an RTX 3090 (4090s blow both of those away, but you'll probably want more cards and VRAM of just move to H100s).

This one uses gpu, it doesn't support Mistral yet: https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm

I have tried running mistral 7B with MLC on my m1 metal. And it kept crushing (git issue with description). Memory inefficiency problems.

Project: https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm

For LLM inference, a shoutout to MLC LLM, which runs LLM models on basically any API that's widely available: https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm

One of your problems might be that gfx1032 is not supported by AMD's ROCm packages, which has a laughably short list of supported hardware: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/release/gpu_os_support.h...

The normal workaround is to assign the closest architecture, eg gfx1030, so `HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0` might help

Also, it looks like some of your tested projects are OpenCL? For me, I do something like: `yay -S rocm-hip-sdk rocm-ml-sdk rocm-opencl-sdk` to cover all the bases.

My recent interest has been LLMs and this is my general step by step for those (llama.cpp, exllama) for those interested: https://llm-tracker.info/books/howto-guides/page/amd-gpus

I didn't port the docs back in, but also here's a step-by-step w/ my adventures getting TVM/MLC working w/ an APU: https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm/issues/787

From my experience, ROCm is improving, but there's a good reason that Nvidia has 90% market share even at big price premiums.

Maybe they're talking about https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm which is used for web-llm (https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm)? Seems to be using TVM.

you already have TVM for the cross platform stuff

see https://tvm.apache.org/docs/how_to/deploy/android.html

or https://octoml.ai/blog/using-swift-and-apache-tvm-to-develop...

or https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm