Strange limit in AMD OpenCL driver

[CarstenS]

TIL that on a Tahiti board with 6 instead of the usual 3 GiByte of VRAM, the AMD OpenCL driver seems to think 3 GiByte should suffice for everyone.

It's CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEMORY is set to 3072 MiByte, leaving half of the memory effectively useless. Is there any known workaround, an environment variable or such or is this a hard, articifical and stupid limitation?

In OpenGL and D3D, I can use the memory in games alright and don't get perf degradation in situations between 3 and 6 GiByte, so I am inclined to assume it's a real board with 6 GiBytes of memory and not just someone having manipulated the BIOS.

 

[JoeJ]

Just tried with my Vega56, where i get the full 8GB. Guess it's a driver bug and they might fix it if you report. Assuming there's still someone left to work on OpenCL, in his sparetime, maybe... Ryzen CPU is no longer listed as CL device

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