Minisforum AI X1 Pro: ComfyUI – Generate video, images, 3D, audio with AI

This is a series of articles looking at the Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux. In this series, I examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail from a Linux perspective.

The Minisforum AI X1 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with integrated Radeon 890M graphics. This is no ordinary processor and no ordinary integrated GPU. The machine can handle extremely demanding tasks. With 64GB of RAM and 1TB NVMe this configuration retails for £929.

Unlike many mini PCs, the AI X1 Pro has a very capable integrated GPU. I want to see what performance is like running machine learning software on the Radeon 890M. Let’s look at ComfyUI, open source node-based software for generative AI.

I’ve reviewed a whole raft of machine learning software using NVIDIA dedicated graphics cards and CUDA. CUDA is a proprietary platform. The Radeon 890M uses ROCm, a software stack that includes programming models, tools, compilers, libraries, and runtimes for AI and HPC solution development on AMD GPUs. Unlike CUDA, ROCm is open source.

Before installing ComfyUI, I first need to set up ROCm, AMD provides a guide on how to set up ROCm in Linux covering Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. But you’re not forced to use one of these distributions (or a distro based on them). Other distributions can install RoCm. In my case, I installed Manjaro on the AI X1 Pro.

I’ll take you through installing ROCm under Manjaro (an Arch-based distribution), and then move on to installing ComfyUI and see what performance is like with the Radeon 890M graphics.

From the BIOS, I increased the amount of RAM allocated to the GPU from 2GB to 8GB.

Next page: Page 2 – Installing ROCm

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction
Page 2 – Installing ROCm under Manjaro
Page 3 – Installing Miniconda and ComfyUI
Page 4 – ComfyUI Performance

Complete list of articles in this series: