I can’t render on Blender, for a long time I was using my CPU to render my projects without my knowing it and when I realized this in the settings I decided to configure the video card and I read on the internet that to use AMDGPU PRO driver (which Blender needs to work perfectly) I would have to install the opencl-amd this way I installed the opencl-amd package and restarted my computer, when I opened blender to select my video card Blender closed automatically, when I tried to enter the rendering mode my computer have crashed, I saw that this problem was similar to another problem here on the forum that was resolved by changing the version of the opencl-amd package to an earlier version, I tried to do this but it didn’t work, when i changed the driver version I managed to select my GPU in the settings and rendered some things in eevee, but it took a long time and my computer keeps crashing if i try to render something in Cycles.
I continued researching how to install my video card in Blender and found here on the forum explaining that I should install the opencl-amdgpu-pro-orca package (which actually is opencl-amd-polaris), so I installed the package but the problem persisted, my computer keeps freezing when I try to render something. I ended up giving up rendering with my GPU and uninstalled opencl-amdgpu-pro-orca, I also didn’t have opencl-amd anymore because these two packages cannot be installed at the same time, I decided to render with the CPU, but now my computer keeps freezing when I try to render anything even if I use CPU.
$ clinfo
Number of platforms 2
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Platform Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Platform Version OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (3180.7)
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 Clover
Platform Vendor Mesa
Platform Version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 20.3.4
Platform Profile FULL_PROFILE
Platform Extensions cl_khr_icd
Platform Extensions function suffix MESA
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Number of devices 1
Device Name Ellesmere
Device Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Device Vendor ID 0x1002
Device Version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (3180.7)
Driver Version 3180.7
Device OpenCL C Version OpenCL C 1.2
Device Type GPU
Device Board Name (AMD) Radeon RX 570 Series
Device PCI-e ID (AMD) 0
Device Topology (AMD) PCI-E, 08:00.0
Device Profile FULL_PROFILE
Device Available Yes
Compiler Available Yes
Linker Available Yes
Max compute units 32
SIMD per compute unit (AMD) 4
SIMD width (AMD) 16
SIMD instruction width (AMD) 1
Max clock frequency 1286MHz
Graphics IP (AMD) 8.0
Device Partition (core)
Max number of sub-devices 32
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 (kernel) 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 1655889920 (1.542GiB)
Global free memory (AMD) 1597488 (1.523GiB) 3122370 (2.978GiB)
Global memory channels (AMD) 8
Global memory banks per channel (AMD) 16
Global memory bank width (AMD) 256 bytes
Error Correction support No
Max memory allocation 1363885465 (1.27GiB)
Unified memory for Host and Device No
Minimum alignment for any data type 128 bytes
Alignment of base address 2048 bits (256 bytes)
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 8
Local memory type Local
Local memory size 32768 (32KiB)
Local memory size per CU (AMD) 65536 (64KiB)
Local memory banks (AMD) 32
Max number of constant args 8
Max constant buffer size 1363885465 (1.27GiB)
Preferred constant buffer size (AMD) 16384 (16KiB)
Max size of kernel argument 1024
Queue properties
Out-of-order execution No
Profiling Yes
Prefer user sync for interop Yes
Profiling timer resolution 1ns
Profiling timer offset since Epoch (AMD) 1614830809171028543ns (Thu Mar 4 01:06:49 2021)
Execution capabilities
Run OpenCL kernels Yes
Run native kernels No
Thread trace supported (AMD) Yes
Number of async queues (AMD) 2
Max real-time compute queues (AMD) 0
Max real-time compute units (AMD) 0
SPIR versions 1.2
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_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_amd_bus_addressable_memory cl_khr_spir cl_khr_gl_event
Platform Name Clover
Number of devices 1
Device Name Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10, DRM 3.40.0, 5.11.1-1-MANJARO, LLVM 11.1.0)
Device Vendor AMD
Device Vendor ID 0x1002
Device Version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 20.3.4
Driver Version 20.3.4
Device OpenCL C Version OpenCL C 1.1
Device Type GPU
Device Profile FULL_PROFILE
Device Available Yes
Compiler Available Yes
Max compute units 32
Max clock frequency 1286MHz
Max work item dimensions 3
Max work item sizes 256x256x256
Max work group size 256
Preferred work group size multiple (kernel) 64
Preferred / native vector sizes
char 16 / 16
short 8 / 8
int 4 / 4
long 2 / 2
half 0 / 0 (n/a)
float 4 / 4
double 2 / 2 (cl_khr_fp64)
Half-precision Floating-point support (n/a)
Single-precision Floating-point support (core)
Denormals No
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero No
Round to infinity No
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add No
Support is emulated in software No
Correctly-rounded divide and sqrt operations No
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 4294967296 (4GiB)
Error Correction support No
Max memory allocation 3435973836 (3.2GiB)
Unified memory for Host and Device No
Minimum alignment for any data type 128 bytes
Alignment of base address 32768 bits (4096 bytes)
Global Memory cache type None
Image support No
Local memory type Local
Local memory size 32768 (32KiB)
Max number of constant args 16
Max constant buffer size 67108864 (64MiB)
Max size of kernel argument 1024
Queue properties
Out-of-order execution No
Profiling Yes
Profiling timer resolution 0ns
Execution capabilities
Run OpenCL kernels Yes
Run native kernels No
Device Extensions cl_khr_byte_addressable_store 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_fp64
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]
clCreateContext(NULL, ...) [other] Success [MESA]
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_DEFAULT) Success (1)
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Device Name Ellesmere
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 Ellesmere
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 Ellesmere
ICD loader properties
ICD loader Name OpenCL ICD Loader
ICD loader Vendor OCL Icd free software
ICD loader Version 2.2.14
ICD loader Profile OpenCL 3.0
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inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 5.11.1-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
Desktop: GNOME 3.38.3 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450M-GAMING/BR v: Rev X.0x
serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2006 date: 11/13/2019
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+
rev: 2 L2 cache: 3 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 81468
Speed: 3441 MHz min/max: 1550/3400 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 3441 2: 1457 3: 1375 4: 1374 5: 1515 6: 1373 7: 1385 8: 1377 9: 3212
10: 1556 11: 1556 12: 1375
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: modesetting resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.40.0
5.11.1-1-MANJARO LLVM 11.1.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
vendor: XFX Pine driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.1
Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 0a:00.3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.1-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 07:00.0
IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 164.46 GiB (36.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 48.97 GiB used: 37.26 GiB (76.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 269.5 MiB used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: /home size: 389.64 GiB used: 127.2 GiB (32.6%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 1024 MiB used: 849.4 MiB (82.9%)
file: /swapfile1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 45.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 56.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1102
Info:
Processes: 301 Uptime: 30m Memory: 15.62 GiB used: 11.34 GiB (72.6%)
Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1215
Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 inxi: 3.3.01