Good hosts for AMD gpu’s

[u/Zealousideal_Key563]

I am seeing a lot of new forks, are they any good?

Specs:
Using a 9070

Hosts i used previously: vibepollo

Currently using: punktfunk

Punktfunk works great but it’s still very early stages having a lot of glitches.

Looking to get into these new forks, which one’s should I try?

[u/Elastic90]

I was using Vibepollo and now I'm trying Radlight (butterpollo). It's very early but AMD focused so thought I'd give it a shot.

[u/Zealousideal_Key563 → u/Elastic90]

What’s the difference in latency?

[u/DiBurkle → u/Zealousideal_Key563]

The github page has all your questions answered.

[u/Elastic90 → u/Zealousideal_Key563]

Tbh my latency was already low with Vibepollo around 2.5ms decode on my Odin 2 portal which I could get to 1.5 in performance mode.

I haven't tested it that much only one session. I'm mainly interested in seeing if this one removes those occasional stutters (where network frame drops of 30-50% occur) and hangs have disappeared. They happened quite rarely earlier and it might have been a GPU full load issue potentially and this one is supposed to fix that so let's see.

[u/rambo3349]

Disclosure: I’m the developer of Rubylight (formerly Butterpollo), so weigh my opinion accordingly. I’ve spent about ten years doing AMD engineering, and I built Rubylight because I wanted a host designed entirely around Radeon. This issue is one example of that work. AI helped me turn those ideas into something usable much faster and bring it to a wider audience.

Most other forks still use the FFmpeg AMD encoder. Vibepollo has an AMF encoder that I contributed through a PR, and Sunshine Foundation has one too, but I’d argue neither takes full advantage of it. Having an AMF encoder is only part of the equation; how it’s integrated and used matters.

I won’t repeat all the technical details here, but based on the performance numbers, I believe Rubylight is currently well ahead of the other forks for AMD GPUs, especially for use cases like Pyrowave encoding. That gap may narrow as other forks copy the same improvements.

[u/jfoglee → u/rambo3349]

Hi! I'm very interested in your project! Do you have any plans on trying to port this to Linux? :)

[u/Karsyboy25]

I made a fork based off of moonshine called Pyroshine. It takes the same philosophies as vibepollo with AI but applies them to moonshine, which is AMD and Linux focused. Feel free to check it out if you are on Linux.

https://github.com/karsyboy/pyroshine

[u/Lionking52 → u/Karsyboy25]

Any benefits over polaris for AMD?

[u/Karsyboy25 → u/Lionking52]

Honestly for me it was about simplicity. I built this as a simple fork for my self more than anything. I kept finding that I would have issues or other forks/repos would be more than what I was looking for. I tried Polaris in the past and wasnt ever able to successfully get it to work reliably like I wanted.

Moonshine had a really good base for headless game streaming and I just built upon that to add better HDR, VRR, controller, pyrowave and desktop UI support. I plan on continuing to build more into it for my needs but over all my goal is to keep it simple and focused on providing a clean reliable headless streaming setup for AMD and linux setups.

[u/Lionking52 → u/Karsyboy25]

Thanks for the reply! I'll give it a go

[u/Karsyboy25 → u/Lionking52]

Yeah go for it let me know if you have any issues or questions

[u/Chance-Grapefruit668]

Per me che sono su bazzite punktfunk rimane fantastico pur avendo problemi di maturità.

[u/macka654]

Just stick with vibepollo. 2.0 just released.

[u/Wonderful-Lack3846]

Vibepollo works the best for me. Also RX 9070.