radeon-profile: tool for changing profiles and monitoring some GPU parameters

[hej75ow]

There are no longer separate profiles defined in the vbios for performance vs battery. There haven't been for years.

Oh sorry. So why is it still in the app? very confusing.

btw: Is there any guide for undervolting? I'm not a gamer, I just want it to run 4k movies fluently

[agd5f]

Hi people,
I can't choose any DPM profile. it will always stay at "performance".
[amdgpu.dpm=1 amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff] is in my kernel line.
any idea?

There are no longer separate profiles defined in the vbios for performance vs battery. There haven't been for years.

[hej75ow]

Hi people,
I can't choose any DPM profile. it will always stay at "performance".
[amdgpu.dpm=1 amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff] is in my kernel line.
any idea?

no edit function here?
just wanted to add my card: SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5

[hej75ow]

Hi people,
I can't choose any DPM profile. it will always stay at "performance".
[amdgpu.dpm=1 amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff] is in my kernel line.
any idea?

[Melcar]

Having issues with the latest download from github. Builds fine but it no longer sees my card. Running it with root works. I then tried running the daemon manually. No errors except:

"radeon-profile-daemon (v. 20190603)"
Awaiting connections...

Tried building the daemon again and re-enabling the systemd service but noting. The daemon is running, just not connecting it seems.

Edit:
Never mind. Brain fart. Just needed to remove and install the service again.

[skeevy420]

is amdgpu.dpm=1 meant to be on or off for radeon-profile to work ?

or is amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff the secret source needed ?

using Radeon=Profile 20190903 / 5.3.6-050306-generic / 3.0 Mesa 19.3.0-devel (git-3a20ef4 2019-10-22 bionic-oibaf-ppa)

DPM should be On/1.

My amdgpu kernel command lines are "amdgpu.dpm=1 amdgpu.dc=1 amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xfffd7fff amdgpu.deep_color=1 amdgpu.exp_hw_support=1". The dpm=1 and dc=1 are supposed to be my default values and shouldn't be necessary, but I have a stick up my ass about explicitly setting my default values over relying on autoconfig magic.

WattmanGTK is a good program to get what ppfeaturemask value you need to unlock your GPUs under/over clock settings. 0xffffffff unlocks everything and, depending on the card, that isn't necessarily a good thing. 0xfffd7fff is what was reported by WattmanGTK for my 580 to use to only unlock the under/over clock settings. I've experienced random issues with 0xffffffff whereas 0xfffd7fff has been going strong for me since March (my 580 is undervolted with slight overclocks to memory speeds and a tweaked frequency curve).

That said, you're using a CIK card and overclocking can be hit and miss on them. While it might be better now according to some recent Phoronix articles, it never worked on my 260x. That GPU died in February.

[skeevy420]

Excuse the noob question, but how do I get to install the latest version? I can compile everything w/o errors, but the old installation guide here no longer works for me since I cant get gksu.

What DE are you using? KDE uses "kdesu", LXDE uses "lxsu", and "xdg-su" will try to launch the correct graphical sudo helper for whatever desktop you're using.

[MasterCATZ]

how do we gain acess to the power cap settings ?

https://github.com/marazmista/radeon..._overclock.cpp

the states table for me is not clickable and can not find where to change the power caps
for now adjusting with
echo 120000000 | sudo tee /sys/class/drm/card1/device/hwmon/hwmon1/power1_cap

using radeon-profile-daemon but settings don't seem to hold
ie) set up the graphs but when exit and come back adjustments are lost
fan / gpu / mem speeds are on auto instead of manual profiles

and once this has happened I loose fan controls , its seems as soon as auto mode is loaded I loose access and manual overrides stop working

I would have thought a daemon would keep the settings intact when gui open closed ?

amdgpu: [powerplay]
failed to send message 282 ret is 254
manual fan speed control should be enabled first


[email protected]:/etc/systemd/system$ systemctl status radeon-profile-daemon.service
● radeon-profile-daemon.service - radeon-profile daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/radeon-profile-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2019-11-01 09:10:30 AEST; 1h 40min ago
Main PID: 6125 (radeon-profile-)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/radeon-profile-daemon.service
└─6125 /usr/bin/radeon-profile-daemon

Nov 01 09:10:30 aio radeon-profile-daemon[6125]: Awaiting connections...
Nov 01 09:11:54 aio radeon-profile-daemon[6125]: Connecting to the client
Nov 01 10:28:27 aio radeon-profile-daemon[6125]: Client disconnected
Nov 01 10:28:27 aio radeon-profile-daemon[6125]: Awaiting connections...
Nov 01 10:29:22 aio radeon-profile-daemon[6125]: Connecting to the client
Nov 01 10:39:45 aio radeon-profile-daemon[6125]: Client disconnected
Nov 01 10:39:45 aio radeon-profile-daemon[6125]: Awaiting connections...
Nov 01 10:45:43 aio radeon-profile-daemon[6125]: Connecting to the client
Nov 01 10:46:23 aio radeon-profile-daemon[6125]: Client disconnected
Nov 01 10:46:23 aio radeon-profile-daemon[6125]: Awaiting connections...

other errors i have dug up through journalctl , maybe I will roll back to kernel before Sep

[drm] add ip block number 5 <powerplay>
amdgpu: [powerplay] hwmgr_sw_init smu backed is ci_smu

[MasterCATZ]

is amdgpu.dpm=1 meant to be on or off for radeon-profile to work ?

or is amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff the secret source needed ?

using Radeon=Profile 20190903 / 5.3.6-050306-generic / 3.0 Mesa 19.3.0-devel (git-3a20ef4 2019-10-22 bionic-oibaf-ppa)


if I have profiles set manually I can adjust the GPU clocks , but it completely ignores fan speeds and keeps running low fan speeds , I can not get it to hold 50% plus and it keeps dropping to 20% roasting it @ 100 deg 200watts
( I know this card peaks out at 330 watts power draw R9 290 from crypto mining days and using performance bios ),
My gaming fan profile is normally 1:1 , ie 70 deg = 70%

if I set it to profile_peak ( with a low core speed set ie 300mhz ) it will run core 483mhz with 60% fan speed 90 watts
if I have it set to a high core speed ie 950mhz ) it will run that core speed with passable fan speeds
( anything below that default max core speed runs 483mhz
thankfully this still at least gives me 60 FPS in Doom3 so its what I am currently using when playing games finally Ubuntu / Steam is running games sweet with Vulkan

so I just throw it on low profile when using desktop but it runs high temps @ 300mhz because fan speeds are lower than I would like

I think it might be because of power cap settings which is set at 208w but I have no idea how to change this


https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...bs?usp=sharing

thats a shared folder with screen shots / screen recording etc , apparently I have no attachment permissions to add them here

with Vulkan now supporting Multi GPU i really want to get radeon-profile working so i can throw my numerous R9 290's into a PC again

I also would like a Underclocking option , their is a nice sweet spot performance / power usage for multi GPU

[ThatNerdGuy]

Excuse the noob question, but how do I get to install the latest version? I can compile everything w/o errors, but the old installation guide here no longer works for me since I cant get gksu.