AMD Navi 10 Firmware Finally Lands In The Linux-Firmware Tree

[aufkrawall]

Got any benchmarks? All that I have seen so far show any meaningful undervolt tanked performance.

You lose like 1-3% performance for 50-60W ASIC power draw less.
If it runs into power throttling without undervolting, it even gets you more performance and efficiency at the same time:

https://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/artikel/hardware/grafikkarten/50149-zweimal-rdna-als-navi-die-radeon-rx-5700-und-radeon-rx-5700-xt-im-test.html?start=25

I don't know where those weird impressions come from that UV would be problematic. I guess too many people fiddling with things which they don't understand...

[baxeno]

Fedora 31 at this point support navi 10 now?

Fedora 31 beta was missing LLVM 9 and firmware files when I tried it at release 6 days ago.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

FWIW: If one is on Debian Sid like myself, but also not an owner of a Navi 10 card but have of course been through scores of frustrations with OpenCL I checked out the 19.30 driver tar.gz and extracted them.

Installed a bare minimum of the libdrm/amdgpu--core/amdgpu-pro-core/opencl/libopencl/ and the LLVM packages including the update-alternatives to redirect Debian to use LLVM-9 from AMD.

Reconfigured Blender using those /opt pathways and besides getting Blender to see the FX-8350 and RX-480 8GB I rebuilt against AMD's llvm stack and boy does it work well.

Don't--I repeat--don't install the amdgpu-clinfo. You don't need dkms to have OpenCL in Blender and it will fail at any kernel newer than 4.18.

Kernel: 5.3 rc in Debian Experimental

LLVM Packages installed

• llvm-amdgpu
• llvm-amdgpu-9.0
• llvm-amdgpu-9.0-dev
• llvm-amdgpu-9.0-runtime
• llvm-amdgpu-dev
• llvm-amdgpu-runtime
• libllvm9.0-amdgpu

AMD Driver packages

• libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1
• libdrm-amdgpu1
• libdrm2-amdgpu
• libopencl1-amdgpu-pro
• opencl-amdgpu-pro-comgr
• opencl-amdgpu-pro-dev
• opencl-amdgpu-pro-icd
• opencl-orca-amdgpu-pro-icd
• amdgpu-core
• amdgpu-pro-core
• amdgpu-pro-pin
• libdrm-amdgpu-common
• libdrm-amdgpu-utils (not necessary but interesting nonetheless)

Blender Master builds with less noise now and Cycles actually works as expected.

When I build a newer Zen system after TR3 arrives I look forward to testing out whatever larger performance Navi arrives than the 5700 XT in Blender.

[angrypie]

Fedora 31 at this point support navi 10 now?

No, unless you install Mesa from git.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1751884#c8

[jstefanop]

Well this is great to see. Has there been any progress on OpenCL with the Radeon RX 5700 series (Navi 10) yet?

+1 on this. Im assuming there won’t be any OpenCL support until amdgpu pro is updated.

[smartalgorithm]

Do you know if there is any plan introducing lower-end GPU series for navi10?