I could be wrong, but from a quick glance AMD's website makes it seem like it is pre-installed with the AMDGPU drivers, which are built into the kernel afaik.
I don’t have the space for a desktop/server yet, hence I’m considering a graphics card laptop.
What do you mean by “ It won’t run. Don’t try to damage your laptop.”? What road-block prevents it from running? Why would it cause damage?
I would like to retract the first sentence. It is misleading - the model can run without any hiccups with ROCm, and is probably a decent GPU for this job. However, I will provide more context on the second sentence.
I tried training and running models (GAN, LLM) on my Lenovo IdeaPad S540 (i5-8265U + 8GB + MX250 2GB laptop). The result of such heavy computation is that the battery is toast, the barrel port adapter is severely damaged where it connects with the board, the metallic panels have stress marks due to uneven heating, and the soldered RAM is a goner. And the battery has no capacity. Remember those old TVs where you had to hit them to make it work? That's the state of my device right now.
The cooling system in a laptop isn't the best. So, it would be better to run the model on a desktop or cloud GPU. By the way, older stable diffusion models seem to work on something as old as RX580 with ROCm.