Fresh Arch Linux Benchmarks Of AMDGPU & AMDGPU-PRO

[darkbasic]

I understand that I might not be able to get the latest version with the 4.10 kernel as you have shown in the article, but why couldn't I just install this:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-cik/

Shouldn't that allow me to least get a recent (but not latest) version of amdgpu-pro for my 290 without the need of recompiling or configuring anything?

First: this is from AUR so you will still have to actually compile it. Second, I really don't know how 4.9 behaves because I didn't test it (while amd-staging-4.7 behaves well for sure, you just need to enable CIK).

[bridgman]

I understand that I might not be able to get the latest version with the 4.10 kernel as you have shown in the article, but why couldn't I just install this:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-cik/

Shouldn't that allow me to least get a recent (but not latest) version of amdgpu-pro for my 290 without the need of recompiling or configuring anything?

It would have upstream IOCTLs rather than amdgpu-pro IOCTLs, wouldn't it ? So YMMV behaviour of the amdgpu-pro userspace drivers.

[Davidovitch]

I think you should do so

Done, see issue 146

[schmidtbag]

It isn't in the AUR, it's in the lcarlier repo called mesa-git: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ories#mesa-git

I understand that I might not be able to get the latest version with the 4.10 kernel as you have shown in the article, but why couldn't I just install this:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-cik/

Shouldn't that allow me to least get a recent (but not latest) version of amdgpu-pro for my 290 without the need of recompiling or configuring anything?

[darkbasic]

I'll have to formulate this into a nice issue on the PTS Github repo

I think you should do so

Assuming the issues causing it to be experimental aren't too bad, I might get the modified kernel from the AUR.

It isn't in the AUR, it's in the lcarlier repo called mesa-git: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ories#mesa-git
You can easily install it with pacman -S linux-amd-staging after adding the repo to /etc/pacman.conf, *BUT* he didn't enable amdgpu GCN 1.0/1.1 support in the config, so you will have to recompile it to enable it. Get the PKGBUILD plus the other files from here (https://pkgbuild.com/~lcarlier/mesa-...x-amd-staging/), then uncomment make nconfig from the PKGBUILD and run makepkg -s. It will launch nconfig, which will allow you to enable GCN 1.0/1.1 support in amdgpu (drivers-->graphics-->amdgpu-->something). Then you will be able to install the resulting package with pacman -U filename. Then look for nmset's pastebin (http://pastebin.com/Pfsirxtb) in the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/amdgpu-pro-installer/). Someone should really, really fix the proper PKGBUILD (which is still for 16.30 instead of 16.50).

If you don't need amdgpu-pro but you just need OpenCL you can build opencl-amd from the AUR instead (which is fortunately at version 16.50).

[schmidtbag]

Interesting - I've been considering installing amdgpu-pro on my Arch setup since radeonsi seems to have serious performance issues playing Rocket League. The only reason I haven't done so sooner is because I have an R9 290, which isn't officially supported yet. Assuming the issues causing it to be experimental aren't too bad, I might get the modified kernel from the AUR.

[dikelito]

Why is there almost no difference in the performance between 1080p and 4K?

[Davidovitch]

darkbasic Interesting (especially GPU performance dependency on the CPU), thanks for sharing. In your blogpost you also mention you would like to filter out some of the results. I have previously attempted something similar and have described the process here in the forums. If you know which results/configurations from certain openbenchmarking runs you want to combine in a plot I could give it a go. I think being able to mash-up results/configurations in plots would be a nice additional feature in either PTS or on Openbenchmarking.org (I'll have to formulate this into a nice issue on the PTS Github repo).

[darkbasic]

Here is the link to the DKMS patches for amdgpu-pro 16.50: https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...kU?usp=sharing
They should work up to 4.7, but I only tested 4.4 and 4.7.

If you want to try DAL on Arch you should add the lcarlier repository and install the linux-amd-staging package. I had to recompile it to enable GCN 1.0 support because it was missing.

well done darkbasic - nice article

Thanks!

darkbasic any pro Vulkan results?

Unfortunately not, I had to hand back the system (which I assembled for a friend) before being able to figure out why Vulkan didn't work with PRO. Probably something stupid like missing permissions or something like that, because I didn't dig deep. I also tried radvd on GCN 1.0 + amdgpu but unfortunately it didn't work. I own the HD 7950 and an Ivy Bridge processor so if you manage to fix it I will probably be able to test it again in the future.

[airlied]

darkbasic any pro Vulkan results?