RDNA 3.5 MMVQ/fattn optimizations for gfx1151

[jeffli-xilinx]

Summary

• Add RDNA 3.5 (gfx1151) specific MMVQ parameter table with nwarps=1 for optimal wave32 scheduling on 40-CU APUs
• Bias defusion: run bias-only fused kernels through non-fused template + separate bias-add kernel (24% per-kernel speedup)
• Split-K for low-row-count MMVQ: split K-dimension across multiple waves with atomicAdd when waves_per_cu < 80 (improves LPDDR5X BW utilization from 76% to 89%)
• Q8_1 activation cache: skip redundant quantization when the same src1 pointer is reused across fused MMVQ dispatches
• RMS norm + mul + MUL_MAT graph fusion: fold rms_norm + weight multiply + Q8_1 quantization into a single fused MMVQ dispatch, eliminating 3 separate kernel launches per fusion site
• Fused RMS norm + quantize kernel: single-pass kernel combining RMS normalization, weight multiplication, and Q8_1 quantization
• Flash attention tile configs for RDNA 3.5 head dimensions 72 and 80

Benchmark

Device: Radeon 8060S (gfx1151, 40 CUs, LPDDR5X), ROCm nightly 7.13

Decode (tg128, single token generation)

Model	Size	Baseline (t/s)	Patched (t/s)	Change
Qwen2.5-0.5B Q4_K_M	374 MiB	245.15	297.93	+21.5%
Qwen3-1.7B Q4_K_M	1.03 GiB	138.61	134.00	-3.3%
SmolLM2-1.7B Q4_K_M	1005 MiB	142.36	136.48	-4.1%
Qwen2.5-3B Q4_K_M	1.79 GiB	86.40	85.39	-1.2%
Gemma-4-E2B Q4_K_M	2.88 GiB	96.42	96.51	+0.1%
Qwen3-4B Q4_K_M	2.32 GiB	70.61	68.97	-2.3%
Qwen2.5-7B Q4_K_M	4.36 GiB	45.85	44.99	-1.9%
Llama-2-7B Q4_K_M	3.80 GiB	46.56	46.10	-1.0%
Qwen3-8B Q4_K_M	4.68 GiB	41.43	40.69	-1.8%
Llama-3.1-8B Q4_K_M	4.58 GiB	42.72	41.80	-2.2%
Qwen3.5-9B Q4_0	5.00 GiB	38.10	38.91	+2.1%

Prefill (prompt processing)

Model	pp128 base	pp128 patched	pp512 patched	pp2048 patched	pp128 change
Qwen2.5-7B Q4_K_M	1162	1290	1614	1606	+11.0%
Llama-3.1-8B Q4_K_M	1204	1224	1361	1325	+1.6%
Qwen3-8B Q4_K_M	994	1199	1328	1271	+20.6%
Llama-2-7B Q4_K_M	1227	1292	1477	1374	+5.3%

Notes

• Qwen2.5-0.5B shows large decode improvement (+21.5%) due to very low row counts benefiting from split-K
• Qwen3.5-9B Q4_0 (DeltaNet architecture) shows +2.1% decode from bias defusion + split-K
• Prefill improvements across all tested models (+1.6% to +20.6% at pp128) from MMQ parameter tuning
• Some models show small decode regressions (1-4%) — needs investigation, may be related to q8_1 cache or RMS norm fusion overhead for models where those fusions don't trigger beneficially

Test plan

• Build with ROCm targeting gfx1151
• Verify correctness: outputs match non-optimized path
• Benchmark decode throughput on RDNA 3.5 APU
• Verify no regression on other AMD GPU targets (RDNA2, RDNA3, RDNA4)
• Investigate small decode regressions on 1-4B models

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