Comment by oktoberpaard
3 days ago
I’m running Ollama on 2 eGPUs over Thunderbolt. Works well for me. You’re still dealing with an NVDIA device, of course. The connection type is not going to change that hassle.
3 days ago
I’m running Ollama on 2 eGPUs over Thunderbolt. Works well for me. You’re still dealing with an NVDIA device, of course. The connection type is not going to change that hassle.
Thank you for the validation. As much as I don't like NVIDIA's shenanigans on Linux, having a local LLM is very tempting and I might put my ideological problems to rest over it.
Though I have to ask: why two eGPUs? Is the LLM software smart enough to be able to use any combination of GPUs you point it at?
Yes, Ollama is very plug-and-play when it comes to multi GPU.
llama.cpp probably is too, but I haven't tried it with a bigger model yet.
Even today some progress was released on parallelizing WAN video generation over multiple GPUs. LLMs are way easier to split up.