Running Gigabyte x399 MB and TR 1950x. GPU is a VEGA FE 16GB card. Software is Ubuntu 20.04.1 w/ Kernel 5.3.0-40 Low Latency. Driver is AMDGPU-Pro 20.40.
What I’m seeing is that under load the driver isn’t spinning the VEGA card fans up. Temperature goes too high and the system auto shuts down to prevent GPU damage.
Never saw this w/ AMDGPU and ROCm OpenCL.
BUT: I’m married to this due to latest Davinci Resolve requirement for AMDGPU-Pro.
Anyone else see this?
BTW: Can confirm the GPU fan works as it spins and blows air on power up.
I had a similar problem with my RX470 under Ubuntu using AMDGPU. I believe the fans either stayed off or on low speed. I ended up using amdgpu-fancontrol to get it to change speed. I know it’s a work around but not sure if there is a proper resolution.
[https://github.com/grmat/amdgpu-fancontrol](https://github.com/grmat/amdgpu-fancontrol
So I was curious as to whether the issue is really GPU driver related. So I went through the obnoxious task of removing AMDGPU-Pro and installing the standard X11 AMD driver for Ubuntu. And no surprise, it works. And it drives the GPU fan normally. Unfortunately, even with a headless install of AMDGPU-PRO for OpenCL libs, no APPS like blender, Davinci Resolve, etc recognize the CL card. So it’s unusable. And ROCm is utterly broken with Resolve.
F*ck.
See if there are any workarounds for the ROCm version you have?
AMD, why u do this? 
I just tried ROCm-3.9. No go. Resolve starts but won’t show images or video in the viewport.
I’m seriously considering Windows here.
If the work is important, you should really use windows and get it done with. Judging by the news on Phoronix, it does seem to be that AMD is stepping up it drivers game but they’re definitely not there yet, not by a long shot.
A questionable alternative is to get a custom heatsink with fans and plop them on the Vega FE and control the fan through mobo headers…?
Maybe a used 1080ti is the better option. They’re getting cheap. F*ck AMD GPUs.
If you can get one for 300-350 it’d be super cool. A 2070 Super might be a better deal but the prices aren’t gonna fall unless Nvidia makes cards for people to replace with lol
On second thought a used RTX2060/Super or 2070 etc might be a better option if there is OptiX support.
Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking. $350ish. I care more about GPU RAM than about OptiX. And the 1080ti has 11GB vs 8GB. This is why I bought the VEGA FE years back. 16GB RAM. It does matter with node stacks.
Went back to AMDGPU-Pro for now. Will try your fan solution.
Very bummed though. OBS and Natron are both broken on the pro drivers. And it’s a lot slower than the free GL drivers.
Whatever. Resolve works again.