I have just installed a Radeon RX580 as many people quote it as good starter to using GPU to speed up Topaz. I do not feel like I am getting the gains people have mentioned.
I have Denoise set to use Discrete GPU and have asked to calibrate, but it seems to crawl on Save Image, with the CPU being hit pretty hard and the GPU almost dormant. In preview generation it is still not exactly startling, again with little (5%) usage of GPU processing. GPU Memory is also hardly used.
In Sharpen, the GPU gets about 20-50% usage and the process is pretty quick compared to pre card install. Memory used is about 0.6-1.5GB of the supposed 8GB available.
Are there any tweaks?
Help appreciated.
Nick
Even then the GPU Memory hovers around 1 GB of 8 available.
Neat Bench (Neat Video 5.3.0) Windows x64
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GPU detection log:
Failed to initialize CUDA driver.
If you use an NVIDIA card, please install the latest video driver with CUDA support.
OpenCL driver version: 3004.7
OpenCL initialized successfully.
Checking OpenCL GPU #1:
GPU device name is: Radeon RX 580 Series (Ellesmere)
8192 MB total (8141 MB available during initialization)
Check passed - will attempt to use the device
Neat Video benchmark:
Frame Size: 1920x1080 progressive
Bitdepth: 32 bits per channel
Mix with Original: Disabled
Temporal Filter: Enabled
Quality Mode: Normal
Radius: 2 frames
Dust and Scratches: Disabled
Repeat Rate: 0% of repeated frames
Jitter Filtration: Normal
Spatial Filter: Enabled
Quality Mode: Normal
Frequencies: High, Mid, Low, Very Low
Artifact Removal: Enabled
Edge Smoothing: Disabled
Sharpening: Disabled
Detecting the best combination of performance settings:
running the test data set on up to 8 CPU cores and on up to 1 GPU
CPU Model: Intel(R) Core™ i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz
GPU 1: Radeon RX 580 Series (OpenCL): 8192 MB total (8141 MB currently available), using up to 100%
CPU only (1 core): 1.19 frames/sec
CPU only (2 cores): 2.3 frames/sec
CPU only (3 cores): 3.06 frames/sec
CPU only (4 cores): 3.54 frames/sec
CPU only (5 cores): 3.39 frames/sec
CPU only (6 cores): 3.2 frames/sec
CPU only (7 cores): 3.02 frames/sec
CPU only (8 cores): 2.89 frames/sec
GPU only (Radeon RX 580 Series): 16 frames/sec
CPU (2 cores) and GPU (Radeon RX 580 Series): 8.61 frames/sec
CPU (3 cores) and GPU (Radeon RX 580 Series): 10.8 frames/sec
CPU (4 cores) and GPU (Radeon RX 580 Series): 11.2 frames/sec
CPU (5 cores) and GPU (Radeon RX 580 Series): 11 frames/sec
CPU (6 cores) and GPU (Radeon RX 580 Series): 10.9 frames/sec
CPU (7 cores) and GPU (Radeon RX 580 Series): 10.5 frames/sec
CPU (8 cores) and GPU (Radeon RX 580 Series): 10 frames/sec
Best combination: GPU only (Radeon RX 580 Series): 16 frames/sec
DAH! Step by fought step. I DL’d the latest AMD app and right at the end MSoft said something only allowing signed apps and now I can’t find or open the AMD app!
However
During these tests, the GPU was loafing, the Drive was spiking between 2% and 20-25% and the CPU was thrashing, with core temps of mid-high 90C
Image size (RAW) 20.7 MB
Processing time: (RAW) : 18-20 mins (I watched about a 1/2 then set a timer and left it. It had finished when I came back)
Image Size (jpeg) : 8.1 MB
Processing time (jpeg): 8.5 min
Graphics info:
Application & Version: Topaz DeNoise AI Version 2.3.6
Operating System: Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601: SP 1)
Graphics Hardware: Radeon RX 580 Series
OpenGL Driver: 3.3.14757 Core Profile Forward-Compatible Context 20.12.1 27.20.14501.28009
CPU RAM: 8183 MB
Video RAM: 8192 MB
Preview Limit: 7146 Pixels
That is not even close to normal processing times! Of course, you are running an old Win-7 OS, but something is very wrong somewhere.
On my Win-10 RX570 system, a 14Mb raw file is processed/saved by DeNoise v2.3.4 in under 30 seconds.
You probably need to open (email) a support@topazlabs.com ticket. They may have you turn on trace logging to find where things are going off in the weeds. I would just go ahead and include the log files in the log dir when you open the ticket.
Since your NeatImage benchmark seemed to be in the expected ballpark, I would back-rev your DeNoise version and see if the processing times are still as bad as what you reported earlier.
OkeeDokee. Yeah I had heard Denoise was slow but I could not believe what I was seeing. Then I get a video card and nothing happened!
Just BTW, I was just starting to reinstall the current version, because it now will not fire up at all. I double-click the icon and the hourglass lasts just a second or two then nada. So I have clean uninstalled it and was going to start again.
Given that his thing is over 1 GB and I have hit the downloads pretty hard on a limited 50GB/month data limit (and the DL’s can take up to 2 hours on my speeds), do you know were Denoise stores its downloads and can I use them to install with out downloading? I may as well try reinstalling “offline” before I hit an older version.
Topaz Denoise stopped even loading and as I said I was looking at reinstalling. In the end I figured that whatever, I would just download all over. I also downloaded and installed the “minimal” Radeon software.
I just did the same 21 MB RAW file in about 20 seconds! It was so fast I would have no time to monitor CPU GPU etc! 'Like I said, every step of the way, to the bitter end.
Look, man I am HUGELY grateful for your help. Sometimes just having some guidance and goodwill alongside lets a guy make it through. I was floundering, because I was just not up with Denoise and the card. If Denoise had failed, the way it did in the end, the whole thing would have been over after a reinstall.
I wish you a Happy New Year, as in not just tearing around for an evening, but the whole year.