AMD Releases a New Tool To Analyse GPU Crashes To Help Improve Their Cards

To improve their graphics cards, AMD has released a new tool named Radeon GPU Detective as a part of their Developer Tool Suite.

Radeon GPU Detective

Radeon GPU Detective is a tool which allows developers to retrieve and analyse AMD GPU crash dumps so they can narrow down the root causes of crashes and use the information to prevent them from occurring again. The tool will provide page fault details, resource details and execution markers which reflect the work that the GPU was doing before leading to the crash. The tool requires the driver to be set into Crash Analysis mode and once the crash is reproduced, it will produce an analysis file which will contain the following:

• Execution marker information indicating which render passes and draw calls were in progress during the crash. Custom markers can be added by the app developer using the AGS (AMD GPU Services) library.
• If the crash was determined to be caused by a page fault:
  • offending virtual address.
  • Details about any resource (such as heaps, textures, and buffers) that resided in the offending virtual address, including resource names given by the developer.
  • Timeline of memory events (such as Create, Destroy and Evict) filtered only for the relevant resources.
  • The crash analysis file is generated in text format by default. The tool can also be configured to generate the analysis file in JSON format to support automated processing.

Currently, this tool is only supported on Direct3D 12 applications and on RX 6000 and RX 7000 series graphics cards alongside the latest Adrenalin Software drivers.

This tool is part of the Radeon Developer Tool Suite and to download and find out more visit AMD GPUOpen.com where there is also a provided guide about using the tool.