A set of utilities for monitoring AMD GPU performance and modifying control settings.
In order to use any of these utilities, you must have the amdgpu open source driver package installed. You also must first set your linux machine to boot with amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffff7fff. This can be accomplished by adding amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffff7fff to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT value in /etc/default/grub and executing sudo update-grub
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Download latest release: v2.5.1
This utility displays most relevant parameters for installed and compatible AMD GPUs. The default behavior is to list relevant parameters by GPU. OpenCL platform information is added when the --clinfo option is used. The --no_fan can be used to ignore fan settings. The --pstate option can be used to output the p-state table for each GPU instead of the list of basic parameters. The --ppm option is used to output the table of available power/performance modes instead of basic parameters.
A utility to give the current state of all compatible AMD GPUs. The default behavior is to continuously update a text based table in the current window until Ctrl-C is pressed. With the --gui option, a table of relevant parameters will be updated in a Gtk window. You can specify the delay between updates with the --sleep N option where N is an integer > zero that specifies the number of seconds to sleep. The --no_fan option can be used to disable the reading and display of fan information. The --log option is used to write all monitor data to a psv log file. When writing to a log file, the utility will indicate this in red at the top of the window with a message that includes the log file name. The --plot will display a plot of critical GPU parameters which updates at the specified --sleep N interval.
A utility to continuously plot the trend of critical GPU parameters of all compatible AMD GPUs. The --sleep N can be used to specify the update interval. The amdgpu-plot utility has 2 modes of operation. The default mode is to read the GPU driver details directly, which is useful as a standalone utility. The --stdin option causes amdgpu-plot to read GPU data from stdin. This is how amdgpu-monitor produces the plot. The benefit of using it in this mode is that both the table and plots are updated with a single read from the driver files. The --simlog option can be used with the --stdin when a monitor log file is piped as stdin. This is useful for troubleshooting.
Program and Control compatible AMD GPUs with this utility. By default, the commands to be written to a GPU are written to a bash file for the user to inspect and run. If you have confidence, the --execute_pac option can be used to execute the bash file when saved and then delete it. Since the GPU device files are writable only by root, sudo is used to execute commands in the bash file, as a result, you will be prompted for credentials in the terminal where you executed amdgpu-pac. The --no_fan option can be used to eliminate fan details from the utility. The --force_write option can be used to force all configuration parameters to be written to the GPU. The default behavior is to only write changes.
This utility will display the version of the current pci.ids data extract in use. With the --download option, the latest pci.ids file from https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/ will be downloaded. With the --install option, the latest pci.ids will be downloaded and filtered for AMD specific data and written to the file used by amdgpu-utils to decode device names from the driver provided device id. The --force option can be used to update this file even if there is no change in version. If your GPU model is missing from the pci.ids file, you can use the device id of your card found with amdgpu-ls and make a request for the addition on the pci.ids website.
New in this Release - v2.5.1
- Fixed a compatibility issue with matplotlib 3.x. Converted time string to a datetime object.
- Display version information for pandas, matplotlib, and numpy with the --about option for amdgpu-plot
- Enhance formatting in Gtk monitor tool. Need to improve my Gtk skills!
- Develop a startup utility to initialize GPU settings at boot up.
- Implement an option to write a startup script to effect changes on boot up.
- The plot display will eventually lock up the plot GUI, so it is not recomended to run for extended periods of time. Help in fixing this would be appreciated!
- I/O error when selecting CUSTOM ppm. Maybe it requires arguments to specify the custom configuration.
- Doesn't work well with Fiji ProDuo cards.
- P-state mask gets intermittently reset for GPU used as display output.
- amdgpu-pac doesn't show what the current P-state mask is. Not sure if that can be read back.
- amdgpu-pac fan speed setting results in actual fan speeds a bit different from setting and pac interface shows actual values instead of set values.
- Original inspiration for this project: Reddit
- Phoronix articles including these: Phoronix Power Cap, Phoronix HWMon
- Repositories: amdgpu-clocks, WattmanGTK, ROC-smi
- Relevant Kernel Details: Kernel Details
- PCI ID Decode Table: PCI IDs
- Radeon VII discussion on Reddit: Radeon VII Overclocking
New in Previous Release - v2.5.0
- Implemented the --plot option for amdgpu-monitor. This will display plots of critical GPU parameters that update at an interval defined by the --sleep N option.
- Errors in reading non-critical parameters will now show a warning the first time and are disabled for future reads.
- Fixed a bug in implementation of compatibility checks and improved usage of try/except.
New in Previous Release - v2.4.0
- Implemented amdgpu-pac feature for type 2 Freq/Voltage controlled GPUs, which includes the Radeon VII.
- Implemented the amdgpu-pac --force_write option, which writes all configuration parameters to the GPU, even if unchanged. The default behavior is changed to now only write changed configuration parameters.
- Indicate number of changes to be written by PAC, and if no changes, don't execute bash file. Display execute complete message in terminal, and update messages in PAC message box.
- Implemented a new GPU type 0, which represent some older cards whose p-states can not be changed.
- Tuned amdgpu-pac window format.
New in Previous Release - v2.3.1
- Fixed and improved Python/Kernel compatibility checks.
- Added Python2 compatible utility to check amdgpu-utils compatibility.
- Fixed confusing mode/level fileptr names.
- Removed CUSTOM PPM mode until I figure out syntax.
- Implemented classification of card type based on how it implements frequency/voltage control. This is reported by amdgpu-ls and alters the behavior of both amdgpu-pac and amdgpu-monitor.
- Changed dpkg error to a warning to handle custom driver installs.
- Initial User Guide - Need contributors!
- Implemented a message box in amdgpu-pac to indicate details of PAC execution and indicate if sudo is pending credential entry.
- Implement more robust classification of card compatibility and only use compatible GPUs in the utilities.
- Official release of amdgpu-pciid which updates a local list of GPU names from the official pci.ids website.
- Optimized refresh of data by moving static items to a different function and only read those that are dynamic.
- Power Cap and Fan parameters can be reset by setting to -1 in the amdgpu-pac interface.
- Initial basic functionality for Radeon VII GPU!
- Major bug fix in the way HWMON directory was determined. This fixes an issue in not seeing sensor files correctly when a some other card is resident in a PCIe slot.
- Implemented logging option --log for amdgpu-monitor. A red indicator will indicate active logging and the target filename.
- Implemented energy meter in amdgpu-monitor.
- Implemented the ability to check the GPU extracted ID in a pci.ids file for correct model name. Implemented a function to extract only AMD information for the pci.ids file and store in the file amd_pci_id.txt which is included in this distribution.
- Optimized long, short, and decoded GPU model names.
- Alpha release of a utility to update device decode data from the pci.ids website.
- Significant bug fixes and error proofing. Added messages to stderr for missing driver related files.
- Added fan monitor and control features.
- Implemented --no_fan option across all tools. This eliminates the reading and display of fan parameters and useful for those who have installed GPU waterblocks.
- Implemented P-state masking, which limits available P-states to those specified. Useful for power management.
- Fixed implementation of global variables that broke with implementation of modules in library.
- Added more validation checks before writing parameters to cards.
- Many bug fixes!
- First release of amdgpu-pac.
- Add check of amdgpu driver in the check of environment for all utilities. Add display of amdgpu driver version.
- Split list functions of the original amdgpu-monitor into amdgpu-ls.
- Added --clinfo option to amdgpu-ls which will list openCL platform details for each GPU.
- Added --ppm option to amdgpu-ls which will display the table of available power/performance modes available for each GPU.
- Error messages are now output to stderr instead stdout.
- Added power cap and power/performance mode to the monitor utilities. I have also included them in the amdgpu-ls display in addtion to the power cap limits.
- Added --pstates feature to display table of p-states instead of GPU details.
- Added more error checking and exit if no compatible AMD GPUs are found.
- Completed implementation of the GPU Monitor tool.