Is there a good guide for picking hardware optimized for Darktable (CPU and
GPU)? Is Nvidia or AMD a lot better than the other for the parts of OpenCL
that Darktable utilizes?

Andrew

On Mar 25, 2017 6:43 PM, "Riley Brandt" <[email protected]> wrote:

> That is very interesting! Thanks for letting us know.
>
> I switched to an AMD 470 recently because I couldn't use the NVIDIA
> proprietary drivers for several days after an update in Fedora. It turned
> out to be a problem with SE Linux.
>
> ROCm should also add OpenCL support, but it is just a developer preview at
> the moment (and not all open source yet): https://github.com/
> RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm
>
> Riley
>
> On 25/03/17 05:23 PM, Mark Heieis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Using the info in this link https://community.amd.com/message/2788134, It
> appears that I've been able to get OpenCL working on my system, Fedora 25
> (4.9.14-200.fc25.x86_64 fully updated) using an RX480 gpu *withou**t*
> installing the amdgpu-pro driver. You will, however, need the amdgpu-pro
> 16.60 driver rpms. Just unpackage the few libs needed (I used the
> CentOS//RHEL 7.3 package). Haven't done any benchmarking yet.
>
> Cheers
>
> [~]$ darktable-cltest
> [opencl_init] opencl related configuration options:
> [opencl_init]
> [opencl_init] opencl: 1
> [opencl_init] opencl_library: ''
> [opencl_init] opencl_memory_requirement: 768
> [opencl_init] opencl_memory_headroom: 300
> [opencl_init] opencl_device_priority: '*/!0,*/*/*'
> [opencl_init] opencl_size_roundup: 16
> [opencl_init] opencl_async_pixelpipe: 0
> [opencl_init] opencl_synch_cache: 0
> [opencl_init] opencl_number_event_handles: 25
> [opencl_init] opencl_micro_nap: 1000
> [opencl_init] opencl_use_pinned_memory: 0
> [opencl_init] opencl_use_cpu_devices: 0
> [opencl_init] opencl_avoid_atomics: 0
> [opencl_init] opencl_enable_markesteijn: 1
> [opencl_init]
> [opencl_init] could not find opencl runtime library 'libOpenCL'
> [opencl_init] could not find opencl runtime library 'libOpenCL.so'
> [opencl_init] found opencl runtime library 'libOpenCL.so.1'
> [opencl_init] opencl library 'libOpenCL.so.1' found on your system and
> loaded
> [opencl_init] found 1 platform
> [opencl_init] found 2 devices
> [opencl_init] device 0 `Ellesmere' supports image sizes of 16384 x 16384
> [opencl_init] device 0 `Ellesmere' allows GPU memory allocations of up to
> 2669MB
> [opencl_init] device 0: Ellesmere
>      GLOBAL_MEM_SIZE:          3749MB
>      MAX_WORK_GROUP_SIZE:      256
>      MAX_WORK_ITEM_DIMENSIONS: 3
>      MAX_WORK_ITEM_SIZES:      [ 256 256 256 ]
>      DRIVER_VERSION:           2264.10
>      DEVICE_VERSION:           OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (2264.10)
>
>
> On 2017-01-01 16:10, Riley Brandt wrote:
>
> Thanks for sharing your experience. It's very interesting. Please let me
> know if you ever get AMDGUP-Pro and OpenCL running in Fedora.
>
> I am going to wait a while before switching to AMD. I want to see how the
> open source drivers turn out.
>
> On 30/12/16 07:31 PM, Mark Heieis wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> For what its worth... I just acquired a new system that includes a RX480,
> running fedora 25. It terms of getting the GPU working, it functions with
> mesa, but lacks the "image support" required for full darktable support of
> CL.
>
> With respect to amdgpu-pro, I've been working on installing it as recently
> as today, from what I can tell, we need to wait for the driver to be
> updated to support xserver-api(video-drv-23) (Xorg 1.19 (just released mid
> Nov 2016)). Installing it currently fails on xserver-api(video-drv-19) but
> seems to leave the driver partially installed without detriment (status
> from Xorg.0.log).
>
> Having updated to a new system with an i7-6700k and faster hardware
> overall, I'm having no real issue working without OpenCL for the moment,
> hoping that patience will pay off shortly with the required update. What
> functionality will be in place at that time will be the interesting bit.
>
> With that in mind, I'm still experimenting.
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
> On 2016-12-29 09:57, Riley Brandt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in buying an AMD RX480 video card for the OpenCL
> performance in darktable (and open source drivers). However, I first need
> to know if OpenCL is only in the in the proprietary AMDGPU-PRO drivers?
>
> I am running Fedora, and from what I can tell, the AMDGPU-PRO driver isn't
> available in Fedora. Only the open source AMDGPU driver.
>
> Is anyone running darktable on Fedora with an AMD RX470/480 and OpenCL
> enabled?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Riley
>
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