Using driver 1800.12 and having problems.
First off, GPU-Z is not showing temperature nor clock though appears to be working fine.
Secondly, I seem to be having problems performing more than one task concurrently. About 1 out of every 4 tasks fail when running 8 concurrent tasks. Comparing my system to another user who has S9150 (different driver and windows 8.1), they have no failures running the same tasks. When I reduce the number of concurrent tasks, the % of failed tasks decrease. It is not clear to me what the problem is and I was wondering if there was a diagnostic program that I can run. I am not an expert on AMD and OpenCL. I have some experience with CUDA and that comes with some diagnostic stuff. Is there a user friendly diagnostic I can download for AMD & OpenCL? I am not interested in the development system unless it has a diagnostic already built. I have windows 10 x 64 and the "free" visual studio package.
Thanks for looking!
I put the S9100 in a older (Core 2 quad) Compaq that has built in video as the 9100 had no video output even though a mini DP connector is present. I have three S9000 that work fine using Adrenalin 17.12, one of which is shown below.
When booting windows 10x64 I let Microsoft install what it thought was best for the S9100 and it put in 1800.8
- Using SSE4.1 path
- Found 1 platform
- Platform 0 information:
- Name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
- Version: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (1800.8)
- Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc
I had problems, as mentioned in the first post, so I went to AMD and manually obtained "FirePro S Series"
Which gave me "15.201.2401" and was not any better as it was 1800.12
- Using SSE4.1 path
- Found 1 platform
- Platform 0 information:
- Name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
- Version: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (1800.12)
- Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
The above drivers are dated 2015
However, when looking at the release notes for the W9100 driver I noticed it supported FirePro S series quote "+all other AMD FirePro™ S series products" so I downloaded and installed 18.Q1.1 and finally GPU-Z started working and I could monitor temperatures using TThrottle.
There are a few strange things such as voltage VDDC jumping to over 800,000 occasionally but that is bug in how GPU-Z handles the sampling or maybe latching of the sensor. I noticed that the GPU clock varies considerably. Perhaps the data is not being fed to the video board by the cpu fast enough?
The driver version numbering is not consistent. I expected "18" but got "2527.9" instead. It is dated 3/22/2018 so it is really new compared to 2015 and the S9100 from the manual search.
- Using SSE4.1 path
- Found 1 platform
- Platform 0 information:
- Name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
- Version: OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (2527.9)
- Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
While GPU-Z is now working, I still have a problem running more than 1 task concurrently and am looking into the problem. The board seems to work perfectly if I only run one task. The more concurrent tasks, the higher percentage of failed work units. I was mistaken about the other user having no problems, but the number of failed tasks when he ran 5 concurrent tasks is insignificant compared to what I had when running 20 concurrent tasks. Each task is modeling possible movements of stars in the Milkyway Galaxy as sort of explained here http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/science.php
The app makes extensive use of double precision arithmetic and can only run on graphics boards supporting DP. I have processed over 40,000 units at 4 per HD7950 and 5 per S9000 and had only 2 failures. I got 90 failures within an hour running 20 concurrent tasks on my S9100. This should not have happened. Currently I am running only 1 at a time on the S9100 and there are no failures. I am not sure what the problem is but I suspect the driver as all these boards are Tahiti class processors.
Hmm - seems there is no "edit" capability after posting. By mistake I replied to myself, sorry. I also left out the S9000 info.
I have 3 S9000. Two are in MSI Platinum and one is in Asus P5E where it shares driver with HD7950. All the HD are liquid cooled but the S series run a lot cooler and only need air.
Above is one of the S9000 that work fine compared to S9100.
Here are a pair of liquid cooled HD7950 and an air cooled Gigabyte RX570
