AMD releases Radeon GPU Detective tool for analyzing GPU crashes

AMD introduces a Radeon GPU Detective tool. That tool should help users troubleshoot GPU crashes. The software is available for free and is compatible with AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 and RX 7000 graphics cards.

AMD’s new Radeon GPU Detective tool can generate reports with information about GPU crashes in the form of text or JSON files. That information can help users find the cause of a GPU crash. The report includes page fault details, resource data and execution markers that indicate exactly what calculations the GPU performed before it crashed.

Version 1.0 of AMD’s RGD software can detect GPU crashes caused by so-called TDR events. When a GPU error causes the GPU driver to become unresponsive for a period of time, the operating system attempts to reset the driver. In Windows this happens after two seconds. Radeon GPU Detective can detect and analyze such TDR events. However, that only works for crashes that happen in DirectX 12 software and games. Other graphics APIs, such as DirectX 11 and Vulkan, are not currently supported.

Radeon GPU Detective is mainly intended for developers, but is also available for private individuals. The software is available for Windows and is compatible with AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 or 7000 video cards. The software also requires the latest AMD Radeon Adrenalin driver version, 23.7.2. RGD’s code is open source and available on GitHub. AMD has too published a manual for the tool.

An overview of execution markers in a Radeon GPU Detective crash log. Source: AMD GPUOpen