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#1 Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:07 pm
by davidbam
not much to say ... it all worked like a dream with iso from
https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
4K screen even during installation and Boinc saw the GPU right away
Nice job guys
I am crunching Collatz at the moment as there doesn't seem to be much choice for AMD GPU. Any suggestions please?
#2 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 3:59 am
by Alez
Seriously ??? You have a AMD crunching on Linux without having major hair loss !!
That in it self is a major achievement. I think I will have to try and see if my 7970's now work easily. Collatz is the daddy for points, if you have decent double precision on that GPU then Milkyway@home is also worth a look. Enigma is good to if you fancy some historical code breaking.
#3 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 4:45 am
by davidbam
Why did you have to mention hair loss !!! At least it wasn't caused by this setup
#4 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:34 pm
by Dirk Broer
Alez wrote: ↑Fri Oct 12, 2018 3:59 am
Seriously ??? You have a AMD crunching on Linux without having major hair loss !!
That in it self is a major achievement. I think I will have to try and see if my 7970's now work easily. Collatz is the daddy for points, if you have decent double precision on that GPU then Milkyway@home is also worth a look. Enigma is good too, if you fancy some historical code breaking.
HD7970 has no VEGA chips, so no go. Only VEGA architecture is supported under Linux, crunching-wise, sorry.
#5 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:55 pm
by davidbam
Has anyone tried the Radeon RX Vega 64 - it is a bit greedy at 295W (the RX580 is 185W). Is it worth the extra purchase and running costs ?
#6 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2018 5:33 pm
by davidbam
Also now crunching under Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS on a Firepro W5100
https://www.amd.com/en/products/profess ... epro-w5100
Collatz reports it as
AMD BONAIRE (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.15.0-36-generic, LLVM 6.0.0) (4096MB) OpenCL: 1.1
#7 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 6:26 pm
by davidbam
Out of interest, I fitted two graphics cards into the same machine (ubuntu with rx580 and a Firepro W5100)
xrandr correctly reports both cards but Boinc doesn't give any work to the second card (even when I leave a CPU core spare).
Not a deal-breaker but I'd be interested if anyone has got multiple cards working under Linux before? Either 2 x AMD, 2 x nVidia or one of each
#8 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:43 pm
by davidbam
Sorted. In cc_config.xml
Code: Select all
<options>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
</options>
#9 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 12:57 am
by Alez
Beat me to it. I had 4 x nVidias crunching in Caro with a workstation server board. 1200W PSU required for that set up.