How do I find out if my GPUs are used?
19 Apr 2024 15:55:24 UTC
Topic 231017
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Hello.
I would like to know with certainty whether or not my GPUs are being used for BOINC. How do I do that?
I have an AMD A8-7600 APU with onboard AMD Radeon R7 (Kaveri) graphics, and a dedicated graphics card which is Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle (Navi 23).
The settings on einsteinathome.org do take the GPU into account and I can set settings for it, but are onboard graphics and dedicated graphics actually being utilized? How do I find out? I'm using BOINC on a desktop system running Linux Mint 21.1.
Thank you kindly.
you don't have GPU drivers
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you don't have GPU drivers properly installed. BOINC does not recognize the GPU.
so it will not be used.
if you want it to be used, you need to install proper GPU drivers.
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I'm using the 'amdgpu'
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I'm using the 'amdgpu' driver. Is that not good enough?
it might be, as long as you
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it might be, as long as you aren't using the Mesa driver built into Linux. I think ROCm drivers probably work better though if the amdgpu driver isnt sufficient.
I am going by what is reported in your profile, however, your computer has not contacted the project since yesterday. maybe you should click "Update" in BOINC Manager to resume work fetch from the project.
also be sure that you have the BRP7 and/or O3AS project selected in the project preferences. those are the only GPU projects available for your GPU. currently there is only wont available from BRP7, but O3AS should resume next week.
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If you are using the drivers
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If you are using the drivers that your OS installed, then it is not. You have no gpu drivers installed that are detected by Boinc. Suggest you go to AMD here and follow the instructions to install directly from AMD.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/linux-drivers
hex1A4 wrote:I'm using the
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No, because it doesn't provide GPU compute. You probably can't get what you need from the AMD website because Mint isn't a "supported" distribution.
You probably need 'Mint specific' OpenCL GPU compute libraries that work on top of amdgpu. There is bound to be something packaged for Mint that will do the job. You just need to go to the Mint Forums and ask for help there.
Your only GPU currently recognised by BOINC is your APU (Kaveri) which was released more than 10 years ago and might be usable for the BRP7 search if you were to install the OpenCL component from a proprietary package (AMDGPU-PRO) that AMD used to provide many years ago. I would strongly advise against this as it would be horribly slow, if it even worked at all.
You should focus on the RX 6600 XT as that should work quite well for all current GPU searches if you install OpenCL support from Mint. Go and find what's available :-).
Cheers,
Gary.