Guide | Install AMD OpenCL on Pop!OS, Ubuntu & some Derivates

[Tpal]

Hey, i will show you a way to Install only the OpenCL Drivers/Headers. In a relatively hassle free manner.
After some fiddling to get OpenCL running on my Pop!OS Machine,
I’ve learnt some pitfalls to resolve. With that said, let’s get started.

Sources:
Radeon™ Software for Linux® Installation > Table of Content | readthedocs.io
Installing All Open / Pro Variant | readthedocs.io
opencl-optional-component | readthedocs.io

Informations about ROCm/ROCr
Application-specific limitations of ROCm and Blender | developer.blender
ROCm Compatible Hardware | GitHub
Further instructions for installing ROCm | rocmdocs.amd

Disclaimer
the installation routine shown, is not amd’s intended procedure.
Everything shown, is kind of bypassing the installation routine.
I do not give any liability or guarantee for any damage to the system, hardware or software.
Use on your own risk.

Main Content:

Scenario#1
Installation & Troubleshooting | Steps: 9
You don’t have tried / installed AMD drivers: (OPENCL ONLY)

Scenario#2
Uninstall Properly | Steps: 3
You have tried installing the AMD Drivers but somethings went wrong.

Scenario#3
Your system is un-bootable. | Steps: 3
Recover your System.

Main informations:

Tested Hardware:
AMD RX580

Tested OS´s/Platforms: | by Contributor:
Pop!OS 20.04 LTS
Pop!OS 20.10 | Blenderis, Aisyk

Tested Kernels:
5.4.0-7629-generic
5.4.0-7634-generic | Incompatible with Driver: 20.04.1 / Revision: 20.45
5.8.0-7630-generic | Incompatible with Driver: 20.04.1 / Revision: 20.45

Tested Driver Versions: | by Contributor:
(Radeon Software for Linux Driver for Ubuntu)
18.04 => Revision: 20.30
18.04.5 => Revision: 20.40 | Blenderis
20.04.1 => Revision: 20.45 | Incompatible with 20.04, 20.10 and Blender
Thanks to: dualhammers, for letting me know and your logs.

Tested on Blender: | by Contributor:
2.82a Blenderis
2.83.5 | Blenderis, Aisyk
2.90 Alpha
2.91.0 Alpha

Incompatible Hardware > for this Method:

• Most likely all RX 6000 Series

• all models that do not offer:
  Radeon Software for Linux Drivers for Ubuntu:
  -18.04 HWE | Revision Number20.30
  -18.04.5 HWE | Revision Number20.40
• Integrated Motherboard Graphics
• Professional & Server Graphics
• R5, R7, R9 Series
• HD Series
• ATi Series / Legacy Graphics

Thanks to all Contributors.

NOTE: Latest driver 20.04.1 / Revision: 20.45 is incompatible on <& 20.04, 20.10 and also Blender

• AMD has apparently changed the openCL headers internally from:
  (Pal / Legacy) to (ROCm / ROCr),

• Most likely all RX 6000 series and
  all models that do not offer older driver versions are incompatible for this method at the moment.

• Models with older driver available like:
  Radeon Software for Linux Drivers for Ubuntu:
  18.04 | Number: 20.30
  18.04.5 | Number: 20.40
  should still work with this method on Pop!OS 20.10.
  ./amdgpu-install --opencl=pal,legacy --headless --no-dkms

Tested driver 20.04.1 / Revision: 20.45 on Pop!OS 20.04 and FerenOS 20.04

• Results:
  1. Installation and kernel update/build were successful.
  2. Strange rendering artefacts and pixel mush in (eevee -> Render Mode)
  

• 3. So far I’ve had no luck and Blender doesn’t finish kernel compilation (Cycles) without crashing.
  So the latest driver doesn’t seem to be fully compatible with Blender ATM.
  maybe a little love and optimization can change that in the long run.

• Maybe it’s because of this:
  WARNING: PAL OpenCL has been dropped in favour of ROCr.ROCr OpenCL will be installed instead of PAL OpenCL.Please advise that this option is deprecated and will be removed in future releases. Please use --opencl=rocr instead.
  AMD ROCm/ROCr | not fully supported by Blender
  Application-specific limitations of ROCm and Blender | developer.blender

Scenario#1
You don’t have installed AMD drivers: (OpenCL ONLY)

1. Go to AMD Driver support
Download the Driver Tarball for your GPU -> for Ubuntu Distributions.
(Not greater than 18.04.5 => Revision: 20.40)

2. Extract the Tarball and open the new Folder
(amdgpu-pro-20.10-1048554-ubuntu-18.04) in my case.

3. Edit the (amdgpu-install file) for compatibility purposes
double-click on amdgpu-install
-Some text-editor should appear

• Search for Ubuntu (Ctrl f)
  -add “|pop” to the case list
  -once the new Case is added press (ctrl s) to save the file and close the text-editor.

• Note: This step is key, this will add Pop!OS as a compatible Distribution.*
  

4. right click on some free space in that folder where the “amdgpu-install” File is ->

• Right Click -> “Open in Terminal"
  Now you should have a terminal window with a path pointer, to your downloaded Driver Folder.

5. In the Terminal
Now The Fun beginns, also the Installation Process.

Pop!OS 18.04~20.10:

• AMD GPU
  ./amdgpu-install --no-dkms --opencl=legacy,pal --headless

• AMD GPU Pro
  ./amdgpu-pro-install --no-dkms --opencl=pal,legacy --headless
  if you encounter this Message:
  “ERROR: using --no-dkms with a pro install is invalid.\nDid you want to run the following instead \namdgpu-install --no-dkms”
  Try this Procedure thanks to: pzona

• AMD GPU Pro ROCm | not fully supported by Blender
  ./amdgpu-install --no-dkms --opencl=rocm --headless
  Note: Thanks to Blenderis for the incompatibility hint.
  That’s the new Command for newer OS’s. Sadly without dryrun flag.
  So you need to watch extra carefully if there are no DKMS packages.

If you encounter a warning Message like “Build Error 1” Or simmilar, dont Reboot your system!
Follow Scenario#2 below and uninstall AMD-GPU Drivers properly and restart your install processdere.

Some explanation for the --Flags

• Choose the right OpenCL: Header package for your hardware and application.
  If you are not sure, please refer to the links below.

• Old and semi-old GPU’s
  --opencl=legacy,pal
  Vega10 or newer GPU´s
  --opencl=rocm
  ROCm overview:
  Informations about ROCm/ROCr
  Application-specific limitations of ROCm and Blender | developer.blender
  ROCm Compatible Hardware | GitHub
  Further instructions for installing ROCm | rocmdocs.amd

• –headless should assure
  -no Display driver
  -no DKMS Firmware
  -no Vulkan and/or OpenGL librarys get installed.
  (You don’t need them since Pop!OS uses The X.Org Mesa Drivers.)

• –dryrun Is an auxiliary flag, it simulates the installation process, shows you the packages to be installed. But without any actual installation. Remove it to start the final installation.

• –no-dkms
  is important!
  This flag prevents a kernel rebuild and the installation of:
  amdgpu-pro-firmware and other DKMS packages.
  Note: Pop! OS is not compatible with these drivers.
  The DKMS rebuild will result in errors.
  This can lead to a un-bootable Pop!OS.

If it looks like in this Picture, you are ready to go.
Just remove The —dryrun Flag and let the Installation-process begin.

6. Installation without --dryrun Flag

As you can see, there are some dependencies needed to install.
As long as there are no hints in the Packagenames like ->
DKMS, Firmware, Vulkan or OpenGL. it’s good to go.
Press Y and Confirm.

7. Check your installation in Terminal by type: clinfo
if the installation was successful:
it should response: Number of devices: 1 or
(if you have more than one OpenCL compatible Devices, it should show something >0)

8. Reboot your System

9. Check Blender

If the Result looks like the Picture above:
Congratulations, You’ve just successfully installed AMD´s proprietary OpenCL on Linux!

TROUBLESHOOTING

If not: blender and/or clinfo, does not show me any compatible OpenCL device:

• Note: Thanks to Aisyk for his research, according to his findings:
  it might be helpful or necessary to install the following package manually:
  sudo apt install opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1
  his attempts also showed:
  flatpack version of blender, does not work properly for using OpenCL.

• It can also be helpful, to test out one of the daily builds.
  They contain some hotfixes for new hardware and tackle version problems.
  It is possible that the detection of the OpenCL hardware and / or other errors have already been fixed with this version.

• Note: sometimes you need to reinstall Blender,
  or move it to another Place(If Downloaded from Blender.org as Archive)

• If Blender won’t start, artifacts appear in eevvee, or your Cycles kernel build is unsuccessful. Check whether you have installed Driver: 20.04.1 / Revision: 20.45.
  In this case: this version is not compatible with Blender atm, also not with system versions <& 20.04, 20.10.

Scenario#2
You have tried installing the AMD Drivers but somethings went wrong OR
you can’t perform a proper Uninstall anymore.

If you just want to Uninstall the Drivers properly.

1. go to your downloaded amd driver folder and open a terminal->
like in step 4 @ Scenario#1 and type:

• ./amdgpu-pro-install --uninstall
• ./amdgpu-install --uninstall

If you have already executed:

• amdgpu-uninstall OR
• amdgpu-pro-uninstall
  Result could be:
• “The amdgpu driver is already installed or was not uninstalled correctly. Please fully uninstall the driver before proceeding with installation You can try running this install script with the --uninstall option to clean up the previous installation.”

1. Not a problem, just open a Terminal and Type:

• Pop!OS 18.04~20.04:
  sudo apt install amdgpu-dkms libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1
  Thanks to Blenderis
  This will refresh the Dependency list. Especially the amdgpu-pro-pin.

• Pop!OS 18.04
  sudo apt install amdgpu-dkms libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1 libdrm-amdgpu1libdrm2-amdgpu

4. Folow Step 1 @ Scenario#2

3. Reboot your System

Beginn with step 1 @ Scenario#1

Scenario#3
Your system is un-bootable.

Note: this steps will solve a un-bootable OS. (if you have access to the Terminal.)
1. Press/Try (ALT F2)

2. In Terminal Type:

• cd Downloads/amdgpu-pro-xx.xx-xxxx-ubuntu-xx.xx
  (Note: i assume your downloaded Driver Package is in the Downloads Folder. If not change it according to your path.)
  Please replace the “x” with the numbers of your Driver folder name.
  you can type ls to list the entities.

Once your Path matches the place where your downloaded Driver folder lies.
Type:

• ./amdgpu-pro-install --uninstall
./amdgpu-install --uninstall

3. Reboot your System

(Note: once your system is bootable again)
Beginn with step 1 @ Scenario#1

Hope this is helpful.
-Cheers Tpal

Was it helpful / successful for you?

• If not, please let me know your:
  -Pop!OS/Linux version + (kernel version optional)
  -GPU series / model
  -Driver edition + revsion number
  Error message/s (logs, images optional)

• If you were successful with a:
  -driver version
  -GPU model / series
  -Kernel / Linux version
  I have marked as incompatible.
  Please let me know. Also what steps it will take to make it work.
  This will help keep this guide updated.
  Thanks in regard.

• Yes
• No

[silex]

Great explanation. Also, new drivers, nice!
Did you check how’s the performance comparing to 19.50?

[Tpal]

Unfortunately I have no comparison for the latest drivers. This was my first attempt on PopOS.
However, since I had some pitfalls, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to document the solutions I´ve found.
So that others have a working solution.
Thanks for the kind words.
Glad if it helps someone.

[Blenderis]

I just wanted to provide some feedback since I am on PopOS 20.04.
Your instructions do not seem to apply. The --no-dkms does not work.

When running amdgpu-pro-install command:

ERROR: using --no-dkms with a pro install is invalid.
Did you want to run the following instead?
amdgpu-install --no-dkms

When running the ./amdgpu-install --opencl=legacy,pal --no-dkms --headless it seems to work better from an installation perspective.

./amdgpu-install --opencl=legacy,pal --no-dkms --headless
deb [ trusted=yes ] file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/ ./
Get:1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ InRelease
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Get:2 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release [816 B]
Get:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release.gpg                                                                                       
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Hit:4 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease                                                      
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Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Hit:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Hit:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
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Selected version '20.20-1089974' (localhost [all]) for 'amdgpu-pin'
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libomxil-bellagio-bin libomxil-bellagio0 libwayland-server0:i386
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  amdgpu-pin
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Need to get 0 B/2,684 B of archives.
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  libomxil-bellagio-bin libomxil-bellagio0 libwayland-server0:i386
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  amdgpu-core amdgpu-pro-core libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1 libdrm-amdgpu-common libdrm2-amdgpu libopencl1-amdgpu-pro opencl-amdgpu-pro-comgr
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  amdgpu-core amdgpu-pro-core clinfo-amdgpu-pro libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1 libdrm-amdgpu-common libdrm2-amdgpu libopencl1-amdgpu-pro
  opencl-amdgpu-pro-comgr opencl-amdgpu-pro-icd opencl-orca-amdgpu-pro-icd
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
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Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
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Get:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ libdrm2-amdgpu 1:2.4.100-1089974 [35.6 kB]
Get:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ libdrm-amdgpu-common 1.0.0-1089974 [4,620 B]
Get:5 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1 1:2.4.100-1089974 [21.0 kB]
Get:6 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ libopencl1-amdgpu-pro 20.20-1089974 [13.3 kB]
Get:7 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ clinfo-amdgpu-pro 20.20-1089974 [149 kB]
Get:8 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ opencl-amdgpu-pro-comgr 20.20-1089974 [27.5 MB]
Get:9 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ opencl-amdgpu-pro-icd 20.20-1089974 [21.5 MB]
Get:10 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ opencl-orca-amdgpu-pro-icd 20.20-1089974 [29.2 MB]
Selecting previously unselected package amdgpu-core.
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The clinfo ouput looks promising:
clinfo
Number of platforms 1
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Platform Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Platform Version OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (3110.6)
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                                     Ellesmere
  Device Vendor                                   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
  Device Vendor ID                                0x1002
  Device Version                                  OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (3110.6)
  Driver Version                                  3110.6
  Device OpenCL C Version                         OpenCL C 1.2 
  Device Type                                     GPU
  Device Board Name (AMD)                         Radeon RX 580 Series
  Device Topology (AMD)                           PCI-E, 01:00.0
  Device Profile                                  FULL_PROFILE
  Device Available                                Yes
  Compiler Available                              Yes
  Linker Available                                Yes
  Max compute units                               36
  SIMD per compute unit (AMD)                     4
  SIMD width (AMD)                                16
  SIMD instruction width (AMD)                    1
  Max clock frequency                             1340MHz
  Graphics IP (AMD)                               8.0
  Device Partition                                (core)
    Max number of sub-devices                     36
    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                              5700472832 (5.309GiB)
  Global free memory (AMD)                        5525436 (5.269GiB)
  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                           4244635648 (3.953GiB)
  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 syze per CU (AMD)                  65536 (64KiB)
  Local memory banks (AMD)                        32
  Max number of constant args                     8
  Max constant buffer size                        4244635648 (3.953GiB)
  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)        1593474493860674674ns (Mon Jun 29 19:48:13 2020)
  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 

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                                   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

However blender 2.83 installed with flatpak does not recognize any card.

Only blender 2.82a recognizes the card.

If somebody has any guidance on why that would be the case, I would be interested in understanding

[Tpal]

Hey, sorry for the late response. Also thanks for your feedback.

As far as i know, the Install File without pro can not install opencl.
Just the Pro Variant has included the Open CL Packages. (I’ve updated the Instructions, now it should work with the Pro version.)

If Blender still don’t recognize your Open Cl installation after reboot. Try to move the blender Folder to a different Location. This mostly helped me.

Edit: @Blenderis i’ve updated the Instructions. Thanks again, for this hint with the incompatible Command. i’ve mentioned you on the relevant spots. Hope thatś okay for you.

[Blenderis]

@Tpal Thanks a lot for updating your instructions and integrating the feedback. Your post was useful in the first place so no worries at all.

[javier]

Thanks a bunch for sharing such a complete tutorial Tpal
I went to AMD Driver support , but at arrival it’s obvious that the website assumes that you need this driver for Windows. How to choose the one for Linux Pop OS ?

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Never mind, looks like I found it.
Unfortunately I also learned that my new laptop having only AMD Radeon Vega 6 doesn’t really qualify as Radeon Pro graphics, which is required to use the AMDPro driver

[Tpal]

hey, also sorry for the late response and thanks for the feedback.

Did you find a solution for yourself?

If no: I’ll be happy to see if there is one.
(Could you tell me the exact name of your Apu/Gpu?)

if yes: can you tell me what the solution was?
(I’ll happily add it to the post, with some quotes to you of course. )

[javier]

No worries
I have not found a solution yet. I am taking a break for now.
The GPU is AMD Radeon Vega 6 Graphics, from a Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14" (2020), AMD Ryzen 4500u.
I’ll try to add more info about my issue later. Thanks in advance Tpal

[javier]

Wow, this is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this valuable info! I appreciate the time you put into it
I’ll look into this asap!
J.

[Tpal]

No problem mate, thanks for the kind words.
Glad if it will help.

if you want to try this approach, an update would be nice, whether this will work.
Might help others with similar problems.

I keep my fingers crossed and good luck.

P.s just a thought, I’ve seen the notebook/convertible on some pictures.
Looks pretty thin to me ,(I can only imagine how well the cooling design will perform).
Nice for traveling, but keep in mind rendering is a pretty torturing process.
Especially on GPU and even more if the GPU is embedded in the CPU die.
Keep an watchful eye on the temps, with appropriate monitoring software.

[Azamezeobi]

i get this particular error when trying to install the amdgpu pro following your guide

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[Tpal]

Uff, Looks like AMD is changing their Options Flags pretty often. I will look into it.
Thx for the information mate .

[Azamezeobi]

Thanks i am using an AMD Radeon HD 6470M with 1GB dedicated DDR3 video memory on a pop 20.04 os. i tried all, it still brings out the same error

[Azamezeobi]

its only the mesa,-opencl that worked. i hope all this errors doesn’t have to do with my os installation.
after installing the mesa opencl, how do i setup blender from here. Thanks very much

[Azamezeobi]

Thanks. after using step one and two and checked with clinfo command and i got this in the screenshot. does it mean the opencl is installed properly. if it is i can’t still get blender to see it.

[Blenderis]

@Tpal Just to update this thread following my upgrade to Pop’OS 20.10 and upgrade to amdgpu version 20.40.
Upgraded Pop’OS 20.10
Uninstall the amdgpu drivers (v20.30) according to your steps as I hit the message for previous version being installed
Install the amdgpu drivers (20.40)
Launch blender v2.83.5 with OpenCL support

I thought I would share if you want to update the tested version of amdgpu in your instructions.

[Blenderis]

No change required to the steps. Just followed them and can confirm it works fine.

Thanks again for the original post.

[Tpal]

No problem, also thanks for testing and updating !
Edit: i’ve added your Contributed Informations.

[Aisyk]

Hi !
In the road to install OpenCL render on my PopOS 20.10 with my RX5500XT, i’ve found your thread. Thanks for your informations !

But… it doesn’t work for my system, OpenCL isn’t selectionnable on Blender
My clinfo : https://pastebin.com/JNmdP8U2

I’ve installed with this command :
./amdgpu-install --no-dkms --opencl=legacy,pal
AND tested with this : ./amdgpu-install --no-dkms --opencl=rocm

No errors reported everything is installed fine, reboot ok…

(and there is an little error on your paragraph " Some explanation for the --Flags " -> –no-dksm you mean --no-dkms )