[Cin] Got RX550 working on Linux!

Андрей Спицын spitsyn.andrey at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 18:58:38 CEST 2025


Rx 550 is one of problem-free VGA card on Linux)). Free drivers are very
stable.
It still has enough power to run some 3d games, I run dagor engine demo 50+
fps with fullhd resolution.


Best regards,
Andrey

пт, 25 апр. 2025 г., 17:34 Andrew Randrianasulu via Cin <
cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org>:

> With some kind of HDMI (1.4) to VGA adapter
>
> bash-5.1$ inxi -Gxi
> Graphics:
>   Device-1: AMD Lexa PRO [Radeon 540/540X/550/550X / RX 540X/550/550X]
>     vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0
>   Display: server: X.Org 1.21.1.99 driver: loaded: amdgpu
>     resolution: 1440x900~60Hz
>   OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 550 / 550 Series (radeonsi polaris12 ACO
>     DRM 3.49 6.1.44-x64)
>     v: 4.6 Mesa 25.2.0-devel (git-cd8d8ca795) direct render: Yes
>
> vainfo
> Trying display: wayland
> Trying display: x11
> vainfo: VA-API version: 1.19 (libva 2.19.0)
> vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 25.2.0-devel for AMD
> Radeon RX 550 / 550 Series (radeonsi, polaris12, ACO, DRM 3.49,
> 6.1.44-x64)
> vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
>       VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
>       VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
>       VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
>       VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
>       VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc
>
> bash-5.1$ clpeak
>
> Platform: rusticl
>   Device: AMD Radeon RX 550 / 550 Series (radeonsi, polaris12, ACO,
> DRM 3.49, 6.1.44-x64)
>     Driver version  : 25.2.0-devel (git-cd8d8ca795) (Linux x86)
>     Compute units   : 8
>     Clock frequency : 1183 MHz
>
>     Global memory bandwidth (GBPS)
>       float   : 75.30
>       float2  : 76.62
>       float4  : 80.28
>       float8  : 81.12
>       float16 : 78.93
>
>     Single-precision compute (GFLOPS)
>       float   : 1188.83
>       float2  : 1187.27
>       float4  : 1182.98
>       float8  : 1174.67
>       float16 : 1157.09
>
>     No half precision support! Skipped
>
>     No double precision support! Skipped
>
>     Integer compute (GIOPS)
>       int   : 240.17
>       int2  : 240.10
>       int4  : 240.01
>       int8  : 239.80
>       int16 : 239.45
>
>     Integer compute Fast 24bit (GIOPS)
>       int   : 595.16
>       int2  : 594.82
>       int4  : 594.37
>       int8  : 593.12
>       int16 : 590.84
>
>     Transfer bandwidth (GBPS)
>       enqueueWriteBuffer              : 3.38
>       enqueueReadBuffer               : 1.44
>       enqueueWriteBuffer non-blocking : 3.39
>       enqueueReadBuffer non-blocking  : 1.45
>       enqueueMapBuffer(for read)      : 2.67
>         memcpy from mapped ptr        : 3.53
>       enqueueUnmap(after write)       : 3.29
>         memcpy to mapped ptr          : 3.48
>
>     Kernel launch latency : 90.27 us
>
> bash-5.1$
>
>
> So, mpv plays 4k HDR file from iPhone11 smoothly (finally!)
>
> CinGG only can do 15 fps on this file :( (8bit RGBA project, x11 output)
>
> Encoding into 8bit HEVC also work:
>
> bash-5.1$ mediainfo /dev/shm/vaapi-test.mp4
> General
> Complete name                            : /dev/shm/vaapi-test.mp4
> Format                                   : MPEG-4
> Format profile                           : Base Media
> Codec ID                                 : isom (isom/iso2/mp41)
> File size                                : 132 MiB
> Duration                                 : 19 s 158 ms
> Overall bit rate                         : 57.7 Mb/s
> Frame rate                               : 59.940 FPS
> Writing application                      : Lavf61.1.100
>
> Video
> ID                                       : 1
> Format                                   : HEVC
> Format/Info                              : High Efficiency Video Coding
> Format profile                           : Main at L5@Main
> Codec ID                                 : hev1
> Codec ID/Info                            : High Efficiency Video Coding
> Duration                                 : 19 s 153 ms
> Bit rate                                 : 57.6 Mb/s
> Width                                    : 3 840 pixels
> Height                                   : 2 160 pixels
> Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
> Frame rate mode                          : Constant
> Frame rate                               : 59.940 (60000/1001) FPS
> Color space                              : YUV
> Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
> Bit depth                                : 8 bits
> Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.116
> Stream size                              : 132 MiB (100%)
> Color range                              : Full
> Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709
> Codec configuration box                  : hvcC
>
> Audio
> ID                                       : 2
> Format                                   : AAC LC
> Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec Low
> Complexity
> Codec ID                                 : mp4a-40-2
> Duration                                 : 19 s 158 ms
> Source duration                          : 19 s 179 ms
> Bit rate mode                            : Constant
> Bit rate                                 : 128 kb/s
> Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
> Channel layout                           : L R
> Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
> Frame rate                               : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
> Compression mode                         : Lossy
> Stream size                              : 300 KiB (0%)
> Source stream size                       : 300 KiB (0%)
> Language                                 : Russian
> Default                                  : Yes
> Alternate group                          : 1
>
> but encoding still was  done in seven minutes for 20 seconds test clip
> (no tonemap either)
>
> So I guess my machine seriosly bootlenecked by PCIe speeds/memory speeds?
>
> bash-5.1$ dmesg | grep amdgpu
> [    9.887359] [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled.
> [    9.887485] amdgpu: CRAT table not found
> [    9.887527] amdgpu: Virtual CRAT table created for CPU
> [    9.887583] amdgpu: Topology: Add CPU node
> [    9.888699] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: No more image in the PCI ROM
> [    9.889843] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: Fetched VBIOS from ROM BAR
> [    9.889886] amdgpu: ATOM BIOS: 113-EXT-700004_L01
> [    9.890070] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
> [    9.893944] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ)
> feature not supported
> [    9.893950] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: PCIE atomic ops is not
> supported
> [   10.064640] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: VRAM: 4096M
> 0x000000F400000000 - 0x000000F4FFFFFFFF (4096M used)
> [   10.064655] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: GART: 256M
> 0x000000FF00000000 - 0x000000FF0FFFFFFF
> [   10.064725] [drm] amdgpu: 4096M of VRAM memory ready
> [   10.064729] [drm] amdgpu: 7998M of GTT memory ready.
> [   10.143106] amdgpu: hwmgr_sw_init smu backed is polaris10_smu
> [   10.572632] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: bound 0000:01:00.0 (ops
> amdgpu_dm_audio_component_bind_ops [amdgpu])
> [   10.754610] kfd kfd: amdgpu: skipped device 1002:699f, PCI rejects
> atomics 730<0
> [   10.754630] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: SE 2, SH per SE 1, CU per
> SH 5, active_cu_number 8
> [   10.758061] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: Using BACO for runtime pm
> [   10.758456] [drm] Initialized amdgpu 3.49.0 20150101 for
> 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
> [   10.765104] fbcon: amdgpudrmfb (fb0) is primary device
> [   10.838142] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: [drm] fb0: amdgpudrmfb frame buffer
> device
>
>
> bash-5.1$ dmesg | grep PCIe
> [    0.364217] acpi PNP0A03:00: _OSC: platform does not support
> [PCIeHotplug SHPCHotplug PME LTR]
> [    0.364477] acpi PNP0A03:00: _OSC: OS now controls [AER PCIeCapability]
> [    0.376895] pci 0000:01:00.0: 32.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth,
> limited by 5.0 GT/s PCIe x8 link at 0000:00:02.0 (capable of 63.008
> Gb/s with 8.0 GT/s PCIe x8 link)
>
> Hm, 32 Gb/s should be enough for many 4k streams?
>
> 4k ~= 8Kpix, 8*60 = 480Mpix/sec
> 4 byte/per pixel (30 bit for 10 bpc colors, 2 padding) still just 2Gb/s!
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