Announcing memtest_vulkan - opensource video memory stability test

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  1. galkinvv

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    memtest_vulkan - stress test video memory for stability during overclocking or repair.
    Opensource & crossplatform tool written in vulkan compute. Developed as an alternative to OpenCL-based tool memtestCL

    Just start application, wait several minutes and stop testing by Ctrl+C. Detected errors are displayed immediately during test run.

    Sceenshot from over-overclocked 3060TI:
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    The most transparent way to get prebuilt binaries - download github artifacts from https://github.com/GpuZelenograd/memtest_vulkan/actions/runs/3140130070
     
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    Nice find! This is really helpful to actually see at what point your getting vram memory errors if your overclocking.
     
  3. This is a neat tool! Seems useful for quick bandwidth benchmarking too.

    Runs as-is on Linux with both RADV with a 6600 XT (3.0@8x) and a 3060 (closed drivers, 3.0@16x). There's a notable bandwidth difference.

    Code:
    [espionage724@fedora x86_64-linux-memtest_vulkan-v0.4.0]$ '/home/espionage724/Downloads/Linux binaries (x86_64 and aarch64)/x86_64-linux-memtest_vulkan-v0.4.0/memtest_vulkan'
    https://github.com/GpuZelenograd/memtest_vulkan v0.4.0 by GpuZelenograd
    To finish testing use Ctrl+C
    
    1: Bus=0x0A:00 DevId=0x73FF   8GB AMD RADV DIMGREY_CAVEFISH
    2: Bus=0x00:00 DevId=0x0000   2GB llvmpipe (LLVM 14.0.0, 256 bits)
    (first device will be autoselected in 0 seconds)   Override index to test:
        ...first device autoselected
    Testing 1: Bus=0x0A:00 DevId=0x73FF   8GB AMD RADV DIMGREY_CAVEFISH
          1 iteration. Since last report passed 81.47037ms      written     3.2GB, read:     6.5GB    119.7GB/sec
         14 iteration. Since last report passed 1.06255302s     written    42.2GB, read:    84.5GB    119.3GB/sec
         76 iteration. Since last report passed 5.054044753s    written   201.5GB, read:   403.0GB    119.6GB/sec
        445 iteration. Since last report passed 30.079508667s   written  1199.2GB, read:  2398.5GB    119.6GB/sec
    ^C
    memtest_vulkan: no any errors, testing PASSed.
      press any key to continue...
    Code:
    [espionage724@fedora Downloads]$ '/home/espionage724/Downloads/memtest_vulkan'
    https://github.com/GpuZelenograd/memtest_vulkan v0.4.0 by GpuZelenograd
    To finish testing use Ctrl+C
    
    1: Bus=0x08:00 DevId=0x2487   12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
    2: Bus=0x00:00 DevId=0x0000   2GB llvmpipe (LLVM 14.0.0, 256 bits)
    (first device will be autoselected in 0 seconds)   Override index to test:
        ...first device autoselected
    Testing 1: Bus=0x08:00 DevId=0x2487   12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
          1 iteration. Since last report passed 58.452606ms     written     7.2GB, read:    10.9GB    310.1GB/sec
         18 iteration. Since last report passed 1.033171499s    written   123.2GB, read:   184.9GB    298.2GB/sec
        102 iteration. Since last report passed 5.000616067s    written   609.0GB, read:   913.5GB    304.5GB/sec
        605 iteration. Since last report passed 30.048590232s   written  3646.8GB, read:  5470.1GB    303.4GB/sec
       1105 iteration. Since last report passed 30.017061157s   written  3625.0GB, read:  5437.5GB    301.9GB/sec
    ^C
    memtest_vulkan: no any errors, testing PASSed.
      press any key to continue...
     
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    I should note that while the test uses a lot of memory bandwidth - it should not be treated as a "max bandwidth benchmark". For some cards it utilizes nearly 100% of bandwidth, but much less for other, the smallest known to me - less than 40% for Radeon VII on linux.

    It is designed only as a stablity/correctness check tool, not as bandwidth benchmark.
    One of the reasons - the memory access pattern is not linear, but more a "mixed-order sequence of a linear blocks" with quite long address calculations. It helps in finding memory errors related to address lines, but the overall bandwidth usage is sometimes much smaller then theoretical maximum.
     
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