AMD Smart Access Memory not enabling in BIOS according to GPU-Z

[masterdeejay]

UEFI is unchecked in his GPU-Z screenshot (leftmost one).

Windows is in uefi mode but somehow the gpu is not.

It is no display until the windows login screen show up. I dont know why. Outdated video bios?
All the oprom settings in bios is EFI mode not legacy.

 

[Tanzmusikus]

Your Radeon Adrenalin 21.12.1 uses the older driver version "27.20.15030.3002".
It should be "30.0.14011.3017".

Where is that driver from?

 

[Naki]

Look again.
RE glasses, as you can see from my avatar, I am actually wearing glasses already (and have since I was little, I am 43 now).

Curiously looking at specs in TechPowerUp database for this card, it says:
Release Date: Never Released

Quote:

The Radeon R9 FURY X2 was a graphics card by AMD, that was never released.
Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the Fiji graphics processor, in its Fiji XT variant, the card supports DirectX 12.

 

[Tanzmusikus]

Windows is in uefi mode but somehow the gpu is not.

Maybe this could help you: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/183160/amd-r9furyx-4096-160212

 

[W1zzard]

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It is enabled but not working?
But the fps and the scores are better. Interesting.
I enabled the radeon driver setting in registry, because no SAM switch showing up.

What's happening is that for those two "no" entries, GPU-Z is using a hardcoded lookup table, because there is no way to detect this capability through software.

Apparently AMD has added that capability for R9 Fury (if you say performance results change), but hasn't told anyone about it

 

[masterdeejay]

Your Radeon Adrenalin 21.12.1 uses the older driver version "27.20.15030.3002".
It should be "30.0.14011.3017".

Where is that driver from?

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/d...21-12-1-whql-gcn-legacy-pack-released.436611/

Look again.
RE glasses, as you can see from my avatar, I am actually wearing glasses already (and have since I was little, I am 43 now).

Curiously looking at specs in TechPowerUp database for this card, it says:
Release Date: Never Released

Quote:

It is an xfx radeon pro duo or fury X2 not matter it is the same card
I found it: (UEFI support)
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...ury-series-with-improved-uefi-support.221788/
So i need vbios update for the uefi support, but there is no uefi bios for this dual card.
UPDATE:
I found an uefi bios for the master card but not for the slave
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/204102/204102

now it is uefi compatible

 

[Tanzmusikus]

Ah, a NimeZ driver. I had suspected that.
He uses driver parts from different driver souces. So ask him for that problem with the version number.

So i need vbios update for the uefi support, but there is no uefi bios for this dual card.

Please do a backup copy with GPU-Z ... and post it here for further analytics.


If that driver is possible for your dual card, then you could flash this firmware. Pease do not, if you are not sure.

You could update the updated driver :

AMD Outs Video BIOS Update for R9 Fury Series with Improved UEFI Support

AMD released an official video-card BIOS update for the Radeon R9 Fury X and Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards, which improve UEFI BIOS support. End users on our forums are also reporting improved overclocking stability. UEFI support at the video-BIOS level is required for the card to run without...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[masterdeejay]

Ah, a NimeZ driver. I had suspected that.
He uses driver parts from different driver souces. So ask him for that problem with the version number.


Please do a backup copy with GPU-Z ... and post it here for further analytics.


If that driver is possible for your dual card, then you could flash this firmware. Pease do not, if you are not sure.

You could update the updated driver :

AMD Outs Video BIOS Update for R9 Fury Series with Improved UEFI Support

AMD released an official video-card BIOS update for the Radeon R9 Fury X and Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards, which improve UEFI BIOS support. End users on our forums are also reporting improved overclocking stability. UEFI support at the video-BIOS level is required for the card to run without...

www.techpowerup.com

These are the saved stock roms. the second gpu bios is litte different.
The master card is now uefi compatible, i dont know what happens if i flash the second card with the master firmware. I will try it!

UPDATE: i found a slave card fw.
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/183395/xfx-radeonproduo-4096-160106
now the two card are uefi compatible and bar supported but disabled


scores a little better:

 

[Tanzmusikus]

I found an uefi bios for the master card but not for the slave

Maybe the slave do not need a UEFI GOP driver.

On the other side, it should be possible to implement the GOP from the primary into the secondary vbios.
I found the GOP block of primary vbios in the section from EC00 to 37FFF ...
and the GOP block of secondary vbios in the section from A400 to 37FFF.

But now you could flash both vbios without manual editing:

AMD Official UEFI vBIOS for Fury X, released Apr 5th

Here is the full guide how to flash the firmware on Furys : How to flash the bios: Download ATIFlash 2.71 here Open a command prompt with admin privilege and go to the directory where you extracted ATIFlash (make sure your new bios is in the same directory). Type "atiflash -i" without quotes to...

www.techpowerup.com

Good luck!

now the two card are uefi compatible and bar supported but disabled

Based on what @W1zzard posted, the two entries "GPU hardware support" and "Resizable BAR enabled in BIOS" you could ignore.

 

[masterdeejay]

Maybe the slave do not need a UEFI GOP driver.

On the other side, it should be possible to implement the GOP from the primary into the secondary vbios.
I found the GOP block of primary vbios in the section from EC00 to 37FFF ...
and the GOP block of secondary vbios in the section from A400 to 37FFF.

But now you could flash both vbios without manual editing:

AMD Official UEFI vBIOS for Fury X, released Apr 5th

Here is the full guide how to flash the firmware on Furys : How to flash the bios: Download ATIFlash 2.71 here Open a command prompt with admin privilege and go to the directory where you extracted ATIFlash (make sure your new bios is in the same directory). Type "atiflash -i" without quotes to...

www.techpowerup.com

Good luck!


Based on what @W1zzard posted, the two entries "GPU hardware support" and "Resizable BAR enabled in BIOS" you could ignore.

Multiple 64 bit bar sizes are part of the pcie 3.0 specification. So since haswell it is supported.
For Gpu part i dont know, professional cards i think must support large addresses by default.
I have a few tesla cards that need large addresses.

 

[Mussels]

UEFI is unchecked in his GPU-Z screenshot (leftmost one).

That means his GPU lacks UEFI BIOS support
the whole black screen til login thing, confirms it.

Now that's been fixed, reinstall the GPU drivers?

 

[Caring1]

UEFI is unchecked in his GPU-Z screenshot (leftmost one).

That only shows the GPU doesn't have UEFI mode, NOT that Windows isn't UEFI.

 

[eidairaman1]

That only shows the GPU doesn't have UEFI mode, NOT that Windows isn't UEFI.

I heard that for BAR to work that CSM must be disabled in motherboard bios

 

[morromeyer]

Hi, Sapphire RX 5600 XT Pulse user here. I'm on the same boat with OP. ReBar and Above 4G Decoding is Enabled in BIOS, CSM is disabled. Adrenalin says SAM is Enabled. However, device manager does not report Large Memory Range. The reported range is 1GB. Submitted a bug report to AMD.

The strange thing is, RX 5500 XT (8G) users reporting they see Large Memory Range in device manager. So, I'm starting to think that maybe ReBar is configured to work in a way that, accessible memory is 1GB for GPUs having less than 8GB of VRAM and power of 2 (such as 8, 16, 32 depending on the VRAM size) for GPUs having more than 8GB VRAM.

Hey wrth7, I have the same card as you and the same overall situation it seems. Did you ever get a reply from AMD on your bug report...?

 

[dzioback]

This is from SIV64 tool, about 5600XT PCIE capability (I think reported by the GPU on the PCIE bus).

When I look in a papers, PCIE capability can be 2GB and 4GB also (then 8GB next, so no exactly 6GB like VRAM size). But GPU has to report this on initialization. VBIOS related thing.

 

[wrth7]

Hey wrth7, I have the same card as you and the same overall situation it seems. Did you ever get a reply from AMD on your bug report...?

Hey, sorry for replying so late. Unfortunately, no answers from AMD. However, I've tested Forza Horizon 4 (I believe it really benefits SAM) with SAM on and off, and observed a noticeable boost in FPS with SAM on. Not sure if more than 1GB of re-bar size would yield more performance but yeah, it works.