OpenCL not working for AMD FirePro W5000 #45336

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Neil Anthony · 2015-07-06T02:09:01+02:00

Neil Anthony commented

2015-07-06 02:09:01 +02:00

System Information
Operating system and graphics card
Win7 64bit
AMD FirePro W5000

Details from Catalyst Control:
Hardware ---------------------------------------------------
Graphics Card Manufacturer Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset AMD FirePro W5000 (FireGL V) Graphics Adapter
Device ID 6809
Vendor 1002
Subsystem ID 0B06
Subsystem Vendor ID 1028
Graphics Bus Capability PCI Express 3.0
Maximum Bus Setting PCI Express 3.0
BIOS Version 015.025.000.007
BIOS Part Number 113-C4170400-100
BIOS Date 2012/10/09
Memory Size 2048 MB
Memory Type GDDR5
Core Clock in MHz 825 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 800 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 102.4 GByte/s
Software ---------------------------------------------------
Driver Packaging Version 8.982.8-120814a-145478C-Dell
Provider Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
2D Driver Version 8.01.01.1253
2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000
Direct3D Version 9.14.10.0924
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.11774
Catalyst Control Center Version 2012.0814.2145.37083
AMD Audio Driver Version 7.12.0.7708

Blender Version
2.75 c6b042b

Short description of error
Changing compute device from CPU to OpenCL Pitcairn does not appear to change the load on the CPU or GPU during render. AMD System Monitor shows only CPU used in both cases. Render also takes exactly the same amount of time. This happens for both Blender Render and Cycles.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Based on a (as simple as possible) attached .blend file with minimum amount of steps

**System Information** Operating system and graphics card Win7 64bit AMD FirePro W5000 Details from Catalyst Control: Hardware --------------------------------------------------- Graphics Card Manufacturer Powered by AMD Graphics Chipset AMD FirePro W5000 (FireGL V) Graphics Adapter Device ID 6809 Vendor 1002 Subsystem ID 0B06 Subsystem Vendor ID 1028 Graphics Bus Capability PCI Express 3.0 Maximum Bus Setting PCI Express 3.0 BIOS Version 015.025.000.007 BIOS Part Number 113-C4170400-100 BIOS Date 2012/10/09 Memory Size 2048 MB Memory Type GDDR5 Core Clock in MHz 825 MHz Memory Clock in MHz 800 MHz Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 102.4 GByte/s Software --------------------------------------------------- Driver Packaging Version 8.982.8-120814a-145478C-Dell Provider Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 2D Driver Version 8.01.01.1253 2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000 Direct3D Version 9.14.10.0924 OpenGL Version 6.14.10.11774 Catalyst Control Center Version 2012.0814.2145.37083 AMD Audio Driver Version 7.12.0.7708 **Blender Version** 2.75 c6b042b **Short description of error** Changing compute device from CPU to OpenCL Pitcairn does not appear to change the load on the CPU or GPU during render. AMD System Monitor shows only CPU used in both cases. Render also takes exactly the same amount of time. This happens for both Blender Render and Cycles. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** Based on a (as simple as possible) attached .blend file with minimum amount of steps

Neil Anthony commented

2015-07-06 02:09:01 +02:00

Changed status to: 'Open'

Neil Anthony commented

2015-07-06 02:09:01 +02:00

Added subscriber: @nranthony

Neil Anthony commented

2015-07-06 03:12:49 +02:00

Sorry, did not set Device to GPU Compute in the Render section of the Scene. When I do enable a simple scene render crashes. blender-app.exe continues to increase in RAM, to around 1.6GB, and then everything just disappears.

Simple blend file attached:coffeeMug.blend

Sorry, did not set Device to GPU Compute in the Render section of the Scene. When I do enable a simple scene render crashes. blender-app.exe continues to increase in RAM, to around 1.6GB, and then everything just disappears. Simple blend file attached:[coffeeMug.blend](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F202987/coffeeMug.blend)

Sergey Sharybin commented

2015-07-06 11:57:30 +02:00

Added subscriber: @Sergey

Sergey Sharybin commented

2015-07-06 11:57:30 +02:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Archived'

Sergey Sharybin closed this issue

2015-07-06 11:57:30 +02:00

Sergey Sharybin self-assigned this 2015-07-06 11:57:30 +02:00

Sergey Sharybin commented

2015-07-06 11:57:30 +02:00

Make sure you've got latest beta driver from AMD installed, otherwise there's no way OpenCL will ever compile.

But even then we're having issues with FirePro W8000, driver just goes to some sort of infinite recursion and dies. Nothing we can solve from Blender side unfortunately.

Make sure you've got latest beta driver from AMD installed, otherwise there's no way OpenCL will ever compile. But even then we're having issues with FirePro W8000, driver just goes to some sort of infinite recursion and dies. Nothing we can solve from Blender side unfortunately.

Neil Anthony commented

2015-07-09 19:45:26 +02:00

Latest drivers installed and same issue occurs.

Can you please point me in the right direction to help with debugging the code? Maybe the W8000 issues would be a good place to start.

Thanks
Neil

Latest drivers installed and same issue occurs. Can you please point me in the right direction to help with debugging the code? Maybe the W8000 issues would be a good place to start. Thanks Neil

Sergey Sharybin commented

2015-07-19 22:36:13 +02:00

I've committed some fixes which made W8000 made working for a simplier scenes. More complex ones might not work, also baking wouldn't work. You can check latest builds from builder.blender.org.

Unfortunately, there's no much you or me can do here, it's just limitations of AMD driver. We are collecting hardware related issues there http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/Cycles/OpenCL#Hardware_Issues so AMD can use the list for troubleshooting their driver. Hopefully it'll work :)

I've committed some fixes which made W8000 made working for a simplier scenes. More complex ones might not work, also baking wouldn't work. You can check latest builds from builder.blender.org. Unfortunately, there's no much you or me can do here, it's just limitations of AMD driver. We are collecting hardware related issues there http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/Cycles/OpenCL#Hardware_Issues so AMD can use the list for troubleshooting their driver. Hopefully it'll work :)

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OpenCL not working for AMD FirePro W5000 #45336