I have a Dell Precision 7740 running on Ubuntu 18.04 Linux with an AMD/ATI Radeon Pro WX 7100 graphics card and a much less powerful Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Mobile). I'd like to utilize the graphics card to help speed up Blender renders. However, under the "System > Cycles Render Devices" setting, I see a "No compatible GPUS found for path tracking. Cycles will render on the CPU."
Given this card and os, what options do I have to optimize my renders and take full advantage of the GPU?
I've encountered the https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/radeon-prorender-blender project. Is this a viable option? (Though I imagine it would be a different rendering engine to learn apart from Cycles and Eevee).
Any thoughts are much appreciated. Thank you
Here is the full output of lspci for the Radeon
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon Pro WX 7100 Mobile] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Ellesmere [Radeon Pro WX 7100]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 205
Memory at 4200000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=8G]
Memory at 4100000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M]
I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Memory at b4400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Expansion ROM at b4440000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [200] #15
Capabilities: [270] #19
Capabilities: [2b0] Address Translation Service (ATS)
Capabilities: [2c0] Page Request Interface (PRI)
Capabilities: [2d0] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
Capabilities: [320] Latency Tolerance Reporting
Capabilities: [328] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)
Capabilities: [370] L1 PM Substates
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpu
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