radeontop VS radeon-profile

Linux - with Terminal, install Radeontop (https://github.com/clbr/radeontop) with sudo apt install radeontop , start with radeontop . It's not cutting edge graphics but it works for me as a tool. I'm experimenting with ai apps in Linux and I need to know what my gpu is doing.

I am currently working on a tool that will be the successor to radeontop.

There's radeontop, which can show some information. That's the only thing I'm aware of.

Take a look at radeontop: https://github.com/clbr/radeontop

https://github.com/clbr/radeontop shows 70-85% usage when playing this 4k60FPS video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXb3EKWsInQ

No, it doesn't show encode/decode. Some people on this subreddit will tell you it does for whatever reason like they do every time I bring this up, they clearly never used it or something, but no it does not. There is no easy way to see it like on Intel and Nvidia.

radeon-top

AMD has like 2 or 3 different drivers on nix. The default one is the open source driver. If you see the desktop, it's working. Run a game, should perform decently. You don't see the GPU in performance monitor. That's because GPU metrics aren't standard. You'd need other tools to see GPU metrics.

It can get worse depending on what specific aspect of the GPU is being used. Want to check if your computer is properly using hardware encoding/decoding? Well, you're in luck (with CLI tools), nvidia-smi dmon and intel_gpu_top are really good. Unless you use AMD that is, since radeontop still doesn't have a way to expose GPU encoding/decoding.

I purchased a used MSI r9 360 at a swap meet several days ago, and upon chucking it into my rig it worked well, however the fans did not spin by default. I was able to get it onto Radeon drivers (I think) but it doesn't show up on mangohud or psensor, and the only way to get the fans to actually spin is via this GitHub project which does work fine but booting up a program and having to run it in the background isn't ideal. Any advice on what I can do to try and get it to work more seamlessly?

I used " radeon profile " when I first switched from windows to Linux, it's less fancy than adrenalyn, but it has some OC capabilities and such, if you wanna check it out

And perhaps worth a mention that there is another app called Radeon Profile avilable at https://github.com/marazmista/radeon-profile similar to Corectrl, but it hasn't been maintained for the past 2 years.

First of all follow everything on this guide. If your GPU fans don't work install Radeon Profile (yay -S radeon-profile-git). If you have a multi-monitor setup and one of them doesn't work you can try checking in Radeon Profile if the monitors are detected, like this. If it is connected but not active and you can't get it to active, you can try changing the mkinitcpi.conf file and putting MODULES=(amdgpu radeon) instead of the default MODULES="". After that you run sudo mkinitcpio -P and reboot. If your mouse cursor is invisible in Xorg you can try following this. Now enjoy your brand new GPU.

My recommendation is that you try out radeon-profile and CAREFULLY read how you set it up and it's daemon.

Things should 'just work'. If you want more details on the hardware perf you can try this stuff: Corectrl or Radeon-profile and Manghud