I was having trouble with the GPU context being there at first, then disappearing after awhile. I couldn't figure out how to force it to vanish, it just would after some time.
So I uninstalled the AMD driver that the auto-detect application installed, and reinstalled the version that came with my card. At first the GPU context was there, but now it's gone again! What is going on?
--Keith Brafford
What do you mean by context has disappeared?
Are you running some code, which is giving "no context" type error?
clinfo shows only the CPU device. As far as I know I don't do anything specific to cause it. Is there a reason the GPU device wouldn't show up in the list of available devices?
Are you logged in to the machine from X? (I assumed it is linux?) Are you running clinfo from console session within X? Is there only AMD GPUs in the machine?
This is a 64-Bit Windows machine with only one HD7970 card in the system.
--Keith
I should be clearer. It's not a context that vanishes. It's the GPU device. I still get the AMD Phenom II CPU device in the list, but no Tahiti.
Ok, I rebooted and...even from a fresh start I gets no GPU device.
So I reinstalled driver version 12.3 from the previous versions link:
And then the GPU showed back up. I have no idea how many minutes or hours the GPU device will be available, before it disappears again:
C:\Users\Keith>clinfo
Number of platforms: 1
Platform Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Platform Version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (923.1)
Platform Name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Proces
sing
Platform Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Platform Extensions: cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callbac
k cl_amd_offline_devices cl_khr_d3d10_sharing
Platform Name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Proces
sing
Number of devices: 2
Device Type: CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU
Device ID: 4098
Board name: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
Max compute units: 32
Max work items dimensions: 3
Max work items[0]: 256
Max work items[1]: 256
Max work items[2]: 256
Max work group size: 256
Preferred vector width char: 16
Preferred vector width short: 8
Preferred vector width int: 4
Preferred vector width long: 2
Preferred vector width float: 4
Preferred vector width double: 2
Native vector width char: 16
Native vector width short: 8
Native vector width int: 4
Native vector width long: 2
Native vector width float: 4
Native vector width double: 2
Max clock frequency: 925Mhz
Address bits: 32
Max memory allocation: 536870912
Image support: Yes
Max number of images read arguments: 128
Max number of images write arguments: 8
Max image 2D width: 8192
Max image 2D height: 8192
Max image 3D width: 2048
Max image 3D height: 2048
Max image 3D depth: 2048
Max samplers within kernel: 16
Max size of kernel argument: 1024
Alignment (bits) of base address: 2048
Minimum alignment (bytes) for any datatype: 128
Single precision floating point capability
Denorms: No
Quiet NaNs: Yes
Round to nearest even: Yes
Round to zero: Yes
Round to +ve and infinity: Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add: Yes
Cache type: Read/Write
Cache line size: 64
Cache size: 16384
Global memory size: 2147483648
Constant buffer size: 65536
Max number of constant args: 8
Local memory type: Scratchpad
Local memory size: 32768
Kernel Preferred work group size multiple: 64
Error correction support: 0
Unified memory for Host and Device: 0
Profiling timer resolution: 1
Device endianess: Little
Available: Yes
Compiler available: Yes
Execution capabilities:
Execute OpenCL kernels: Yes
Execute native function: No
Queue properties:
Out-of-Order: No
Profiling : Yes
Platform ID: 000007FED5202A08
Name: Tahiti
Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Device OpenCL C version: OpenCL C 1.2
Driver version: CAL 1.4.1703 (VM)
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (923.1)
Extensions: cl_khr_fp64 cl_amd_fp64 cl_khr_
global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int3
2_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_3d_image_writes cl_khr
_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_ext_atomic_counters_32 cl_amd_devic
e_attribute_query cl_amd_vec3 cl_amd_printf cl_amd_media_ops cl_amd_popcnt cl_kh
r_d3d10_sharing
Device Type: CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU
Device ID: 4098
Board name:
Max compute units: 4
Max work items dimensions: 3
Max work items[0]: 1024
Max work items[1]: 1024
Max work items[2]: 1024
Max work group size: 1024
Preferred vector width char: 16
Preferred vector width short: 8
Preferred vector width int: 4
Preferred vector width long: 2
Preferred vector width float: 4
Preferred vector width double: 0
Native vector width char: 16
Native vector width short: 8
Native vector width int: 4
Native vector width long: 2
Native vector width float: 4
Native vector width double: 0
Max clock frequency: 3010Mhz
Address bits: 64
Max memory allocation: 2147483648
Image support: Yes
Max number of images read arguments: 128
Max number of images write arguments: 8
Max image 2D width: 8192
Max image 2D height: 8192
Max image 3D width: 2048
Max image 3D height: 2048
Max image 3D depth: 2048
Max samplers within kernel: 16
Max size of kernel argument: 4096
Alignment (bits) of base address: 1024
Minimum alignment (bytes) for any datatype: 128
Single precision floating point capability
Denorms: Yes
Quiet NaNs: Yes
Round to nearest even: Yes
Round to zero: Yes
Round to +ve and infinity: Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add: Yes
Cache type: Read/Write
Cache line size: 64
Cache size: 65536
Global memory size: 8581414912
Constant buffer size: 65536
Max number of constant args: 8
Local memory type: Global
Local memory size: 32768
Kernel Preferred work group size multiple: 1
Error correction support: 0
Unified memory for Host and Device: 1
Profiling timer resolution: 340
Device endianess: Little
Available: Yes
Compiler available: Yes
Execution capabilities:
Execute OpenCL kernels: Yes
Execute native function: Yes
Queue properties:
Out-of-Order: No
Profiling : Yes
Platform ID: 000007FED5202A08
Name: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Proces
sor
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Device OpenCL C version: OpenCL C 1.2
Driver version: 2.0 (sse2)
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (923.1)
Extensions: cl_khr_fp64 cl_amd_fp64 cl_khr_
global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int3
2_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_
khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_ex
t_device_fission cl_amd_device_attribute_query cl_amd_vec3 cl_amd_printf cl_amd_
media_ops cl_amd_popcnt cl_khr_d3d10_sharing