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By gerald, 15 May, 2026
Local LLM

How I Resurrected My RX 590 for Local AI: A Guide to Running LLMs on "Legacy" Hardware

By successfully configuring a local instance of Ollama within a Docker container, we overcame hardware and networking hurdles to run the Qwen2.5-Coder LLM on an AMD Radeon RX 590. We bypassed the limitations of "legacy" Polaris architecture by utilizing Vulkan and the HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=8.0.3 environment variable to "spoof" GPU compatibility, effectively offloading compute tasks to the graphics card's 8GB of VRAM.

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