A brief OpenCL Image support comparison between AMD's open-source and proprietary OpenCL runtime
Background
AMD has updated its open-source OpenCL runtime - ROCm (Radeon Open Compute stack. The new version, 3.7, has open-source OpenCL image module included. I have been using the OpenCL image feature for quite some time to better watch animes. Thanks to the SoomthVideo Project.
In the past, only the opencl-amdgpu-pro-pal
provides the OpenCL image feature required by the SVP software to accelerate frame rendering
with GPU.
It seems I can now switch to an open-source version, rocm-opencl-runtime
.
Here comes my analysis of the more smooth-anime-friendly OpenCL runtime! It is essential to know my hardware for record.
Component | Spec |
---|---|
CPU | Ryzen 3600 @ CCX0 4.025GHz, CCX1 4.100GHz |
DRAM | 8GBx2=16GB @ 3.6GHz CL16 |
GPU | Vega 56 @1590MHz |
OS | Manjaro 20.1 |
Kernal | 5.7.17-2-MANJARO |
The comparison
The SVP manager has some benchmarks. Under Utilities -> Assess system performance.
GPU-based frame rendering
- rocm-openctl-runtime: 3864
- opencl-amdgpu-pro-pal: 4656
Image support comparison
rocm-opencl-runtime
Image support Yes
Max number of samplers per kernel 26751
Max size for 1D images from buffer 65536 pixels
Max 1D or 2D image array size 2048 images
Base address alignment for 2D image buffers 256 bytes
Pitch alignment for 2D image buffers 256 pixels
Max 2D image size 16384x16384 pixels
Max 3D image size 2048x2048x2048 pixels
Max number of read image args 128
Max number of write image args 8
Max number of read/write image args 64
opencl-amdgpu-pro-pal
Image support Yes
Max number of samplers per kernel 16
Max size for 1D images from buffer 134217728 pixels
Max 1D or 2D image array size 2048 images
Base address alignment for 2D image buffers 256 bytes
Pitch alignment for 2D image buffers 256 pixels
Max 2D image size 16384x16384 pixels
Max 3D image size 2048x2048x2048 pixels
Max number of read image args 128
Max number of write image args 64
Max number of read/write image args 64
Conclusion
The ROCm runtime supports more number of samplers per kernel. However, this does not make an advantage when it comes to SVP. I’ll continue to use the proprietary AMD OpenCL runtime for some time…
Appendix
package rocm-opencl-runtime
Full clinfo
Number of platforms 1
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Platform Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Platform Version OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP.dbg (3182.0)
Platform Profile FULL_PROFILE
Platform Extensions cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callback
Platform Extensions function suffix AMD
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Number of devices 1
Device Name gfx900
Device Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Device Vendor ID 0x1002
Device Version OpenCL 2.0
Driver Version 3182.0 (HSA1.1,LC)
Device OpenCL C Version OpenCL C 2.0
Device Type GPU
Device Board Name (AMD) Vega 10 XL/XT [Radeon RX Vega 56/64]
Device Topology (AMD) PCI-E, 28:00.0
Device Profile FULL_PROFILE
Device Available Yes
Compiler Available Yes
Linker Available Yes
Max compute units 56
SIMD per compute unit (AMD) 4
SIMD width (AMD) 16
SIMD instruction width (AMD) 1
Max clock frequency 1590MHz
Graphics IP (AMD) 9.0
Device Partition (core)
Max number of sub-devices 56
Supported partition types None
Supported affinity domains (n/a)
Max work item dimensions 3
Max work item sizes 1024x1024x1024
Max work group size 256
Preferred work group size (AMD) 256
Max work group size (AMD) 1024
Preferred work group size multiple 64
Wavefront width (AMD) 64
Preferred / native vector sizes
char 4 / 4
short 2 / 2
int 1 / 1
long 1 / 1
half 1 / 1 (cl_khr_fp16)
float 1 / 1
double 1 / 1 (cl_khr_fp64)
Half-precision Floating-point support (cl_khr_fp16)
Denormals No
Infinity and NANs No
Round to nearest No
Round to zero No
Round to infinity No
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add No
Support is emulated in software No
Single-precision Floating-point support (core)
Denormals Yes
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero Yes
Round to infinity Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add Yes
Support is emulated in software No
Correctly-rounded divide and sqrt operations Yes
Double-precision Floating-point support (cl_khr_fp64)
Denormals Yes
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero Yes
Round to infinity Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add Yes
Support is emulated in software No
Address bits 64, Little-Endian
Global memory size 8573157376 (7.984GiB)
Global free memory (AMD) 8372224 (7.984GiB)
Global memory channels (AMD) 64
Global memory banks per channel (AMD) 4
Global memory bank width (AMD) 256 bytes
Error Correction support No
Max memory allocation 7287183769 (6.787GiB)
Unified memory for Host and Device No
Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) capabilities (core)
Coarse-grained buffer sharing Yes
Fine-grained buffer sharing Yes
Fine-grained system sharing No
Atomics No
Minimum alignment for any data type 128 bytes
Alignment of base address 1024 bits (128 bytes)
Preferred alignment for atomics
SVM 0 bytes
Global 0 bytes
Local 0 bytes
Max size for global variable 7287183769 (6.787GiB)
Preferred total size of global vars 8573157376 (7.984GiB)
Global Memory cache type Read/Write
Global Memory cache size 16384 (16KiB)
Global Memory cache line size 64 bytes
Image support Yes
Max number of samplers per kernel 26751
Max size for 1D images from buffer 65536 pixels
Max 1D or 2D image array size 2048 images
Base address alignment for 2D image buffers 256 bytes
Pitch alignment for 2D image buffers 256 pixels
Max 2D image size 16384x16384 pixels
Max 3D image size 2048x2048x2048 pixels
Max number of read image args 128
Max number of write image args 8
Max number of read/write image args 64
Max number of pipe args 16
Max active pipe reservations 16
Max pipe packet size 2992216473 (2.787GiB)
Local memory type Local
Local memory size 65536 (64KiB)
Local memory syze per CU (AMD) 65536 (64KiB)
Local memory banks (AMD) 32
Max number of constant args 8
Max constant buffer size 7287183769 (6.787GiB)
Preferred constant buffer size (AMD) 16384 (16KiB)
Max size of kernel argument 1024
Queue properties (on host)
Out-of-order execution No
Profiling Yes
Queue properties (on device)
Out-of-order execution Yes
Profiling Yes
Preferred size 262144 (256KiB)
Max size 8388608 (8MiB)
Max queues on device 1
Max events on device 1024
Prefer user sync for interop Yes
Number of P2P devices (AMD) 0
P2P devices (AMD) <printDeviceInfo:147: get number of CL_DEVICE_P2P_DEVICES_AMD : error -30>
Profiling timer resolution 1ns
Profiling timer offset since Epoch (AMD) 0ns (Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970)
Execution capabilities
Run OpenCL kernels Yes
Run native kernels No
Thread trace supported (AMD) No
Number of async queues (AMD) 8
Max real-time compute queues (AMD) 8
Max real-time compute units (AMD) 56
printf() buffer size 4194304 (4MiB)
Built-in kernels (n/a)
Device Extensions cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_3d_image_writes cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_fp16 cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_amd_device_attribute_query cl_amd_media_ops cl_amd_media_ops2 cl_khr_image2d_from_buffer cl_khr_subgroups cl_khr_depth_images cl_amd_copy_buffer_p2p cl_amd_assembly_program
NULL platform behavior
clGetPlatformInfo(NULL, CL_PLATFORM_NAME, ...) No platform
clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL, ...) No platform
clCreateContext(NULL, ...) [default] No platform
clCreateContext(NULL, ...) [other] Success [AMD]
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_DEFAULT) Success (1)
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Device Name gfx900
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU) No devices found in platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU) Success (1)
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Device Name gfx900
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ACCELERATOR) No devices found in platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CUSTOM) No devices found in platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL) Success (1)
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Device Name gfx900
package opencl-amdgpu-pro-pal
Full clinfo
Number of platforms 1
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Platform Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Platform Version OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (3143.9)
Platform Profile FULL_PROFILE
Platform Extensions cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callback cl_amd_offline_devices
Platform Host timer resolution 1ns
Platform Extensions function suffix AMD
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Number of devices 1
Device Name gfx900
Device Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Device Vendor ID 0x1002
Device Version OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (3143.9)
Driver Version 3143.9 (PAL,HSAIL)
Device OpenCL C Version OpenCL C 2.0
Device Type GPU
Device Board Name (AMD) Radeon RX Vega
Device Topology (AMD) PCI-E, 28:00.0
Device Profile FULL_PROFILE
Device Available Yes
Compiler Available Yes
Linker Available Yes
Max compute units 56
SIMD per compute unit (AMD) 4
SIMD width (AMD) 16
SIMD instruction width (AMD) 1
Max clock frequency 1550MHz
Graphics IP (AMD) 9.0
Device Partition (core)
Max number of sub-devices 56
Supported partition types None
Supported affinity domains (n/a)
Max work item dimensions 3
Max work item sizes 1024x1024x1024
Max work group size 256
Preferred work group size (AMD) 256
Max work group size (AMD) 1024
Preferred work group size multiple 64
Wavefront width (AMD) 64
Preferred / native vector sizes
char 4 / 4
short 2 / 2
int 1 / 1
long 1 / 1
half 1 / 1 (cl_khr_fp16)
float 1 / 1
double 1 / 1 (cl_khr_fp64)
Half-precision Floating-point support (cl_khr_fp16)
Denormals No
Infinity and NANs No
Round to nearest No
Round to zero No
Round to infinity No
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add No
Support is emulated in software No
Single-precision Floating-point support (core)
Denormals No
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero Yes
Round to infinity Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add Yes
Support is emulated in software No
Correctly-rounded divide and sqrt operations Yes
Double-precision Floating-point support (cl_khr_fp64)
Denormals Yes
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero Yes
Round to infinity Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add Yes
Support is emulated in software No
Address bits 64, Little-Endian
Global memory size 8573157376 (7.984GiB)
Global free memory (AMD) 8306688 (7.922GiB)
Global memory channels (AMD) 64
Global memory banks per channel (AMD) 4
Global memory bank width (AMD) 256 bytes
Error Correction support No
Max memory allocation 7059013632 (6.574GiB)
Unified memory for Host and Device No
Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) capabilities (core)
Coarse-grained buffer sharing Yes
Fine-grained buffer sharing Yes
Fine-grained system sharing No
Atomics No
Minimum alignment for any data type 128 bytes
Alignment of base address 2048 bits (256 bytes)
Preferred alignment for atomics
SVM 0 bytes
Global 0 bytes
Local 0 bytes
Max size for global variable 6353112064 (5.917GiB)
Preferred total size of global vars 8573157376 (7.984GiB)
Global Memory cache type Read/Write
Global Memory cache size 16384 (16KiB)
Global Memory cache line size 64 bytes
Image support Yes
Max number of samplers per kernel 16
Max size for 1D images from buffer 134217728 pixels
Max 1D or 2D image array size 2048 images
Base address alignment for 2D image buffers 256 bytes
Pitch alignment for 2D image buffers 256 pixels
Max 2D image size 16384x16384 pixels
Max 3D image size 2048x2048x2048 pixels
Max number of read image args 128
Max number of write image args 64
Max number of read/write image args 64
Max number of pipe args 16
Max active pipe reservations 16
Max pipe packet size 2764046336 (2.574GiB)
Local memory type Local
Local memory size 65536 (64KiB)
Local memory syze per CU (AMD) 65536 (64KiB)
Local memory banks (AMD) 32
Max number of constant args 8
Max constant buffer size 7059013632 (6.574GiB)
Preferred constant buffer size (AMD) 16384 (16KiB)
Max size of kernel argument 1024
Queue properties (on host)
Out-of-order execution No
Profiling Yes
Queue properties (on device)
Out-of-order execution Yes
Profiling Yes
Preferred size 262144 (256KiB)
Max size 8388608 (8MiB)
Max queues on device 1
Max events on device 1024
Prefer user sync for interop Yes
Number of P2P devices (AMD) 0
P2P devices (AMD) <printDeviceInfo:147: get number of CL_DEVICE_P2P_DEVICES_AMD : error -30>
Profiling timer resolution 1ns
Profiling timer offset since Epoch (AMD) 1598868803029711474ns (Mon Aug 31 11:13:23 2020)
Execution capabilities
Run OpenCL kernels Yes
Run native kernels No
Thread trace supported (AMD) Yes
Number of async queues (AMD) 4
Max real-time compute queues (AMD) 1
Max real-time compute units (AMD) 0
printf() buffer size 4194304 (4MiB)
Built-in kernels (n/a)
Device Extensions cl_khr_fp64 cl_amd_fp64 cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_3d_image_writes cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_fp16 cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_khr_gl_depth_images cl_amd_device_attribute_query cl_amd_vec3 cl_amd_printf cl_amd_media_ops cl_amd_media_ops2 cl_amd_popcnt cl_khr_image2d_from_buffer cl_khr_subgroups cl_khr_gl_event cl_khr_depth_images cl_khr_mipmap_image cl_khr_mipmap_image_writes cl_amd_copy_buffer_p2p
NULL platform behavior
clGetPlatformInfo(NULL, CL_PLATFORM_NAME, ...) AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL, ...) Success [AMD]
clCreateContext(NULL, ...) [default] Success [AMD]
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_DEFAULT) Success (1)
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Device Name gfx900
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU) No devices found in platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU) Success (1)
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Device Name gfx900
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ACCELERATOR) No devices found in platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CUSTOM) No devices found in platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL) Success (1)
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Device Name gfx900
ICD loader properties
ICD loader Name OpenCL ICD Loader
ICD loader Vendor OCL Icd free software
ICD loader Version 2.2.12
ICD loader Profile OpenCL 2.2