# Running praview with amd radeon
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/running-praview-with-amd-radeon/8556
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** opengl
**Created:** [December 3, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/running-praview-with-amd-radeon/8556 "2021-12-03T14:12:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@aspillai87](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/aspillai87)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/running-praview-with-amd-radeon/8556/1 "2021-12-03T14:12:13Z")
Hello
I have Paraview 5.10 installed on Ubuntu 20.04. The workstation has two AMD Radeon VII cards. However, when I am running it appears that the cards are not utilised and the RAM usage shoots up.
How can make the best use of my resources?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/running-praview-with-amd-radeon/8556/2 "2021-12-03T14:15:50Z")
Please share your Help → About content
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### Author:  [@aspillai87](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/aspillai87)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/running-praview-with-amd-radeon/8556/3 "2021-12-03T14:19:07Z")
> Client Information:
> Version: 5.10.0-RC1
> VTK Version:
> Qt Version: 5.12.9
> vtkIdType size: 64bits
> Embedded Python: On
> Python Library Path: /home/ws1/paraview/lib/python3.9
> Python Library Version: 3.9.5 (default, Sep 24 2021, 21:29:01) [GCC 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)]
> Python Numpy Support: On
> Python Numpy Path: /home/ws1/paraview/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy
> Python Numpy Version: 1.21.1
> Python Matplotlib Support: On
> Python Matplotlib Path: /home/ws1/paraview/lib/python3.9/site-packages/matplotlib
> Python Matplotlib Version: 3.2.1
> Python Testing: Off
> MPI Enabled: On
> ParaView Build ID: superbuild 804a787c9ac8f9b0f8abc7c3001d1e61eeb15208 (!922)
> Disable Registry: Off
> Test Directory:
> Data Directory:
> SMP Backend: TBB
> SMP Max Number of Threads: 48
> OpenGL Vendor: AMD
> OpenGL Version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.0.3
> OpenGL Renderer: AMD Radeon VII (VEGA20, DRM 3.40.0, 5.11.0-41-generic, LLVM 12.0.0)
> Connection Information:
> Remote Connection: No
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/running-praview-with-amd-radeon/8556/4 "2021-12-03T14:28:53Z")
> [@aspillai87](#):
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> OpenGL Vendor: AMD
> OpenGL Version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.0.3
> OpenGL Renderer: AMD Radeon VII (VEGA20, DRM 3.40.0, 5.11.0-41-generic, LLVM 12.0.0)
You are already using your GPU.
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### Author:  [@aspillai87](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/aspillai87)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/running-praview-with-amd-radeon/8556/5 "2021-12-03T14:43:12Z")
I do not feel the power of GPU. My computer freezes just when I load a 4GB unstructured dataset.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/running-praview-with-amd-radeon/8556/6 "2021-12-03T14:44:59Z")
Sounds like RAM issue, not GPU issue. Monitor your memory.
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### Author:  [@aspillai87](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/aspillai87)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/running-praview-with-amd-radeon/8556/7 "2021-12-03T15:00:36Z")
I notice that Paraview is using as much as 33 GB of memory (64 GB in total) before the system freezes. Paraview defaults to ‘surface’ representation even after I tried to set ‘Outline’ as default.
`radeontop` output suggests that the GPUs are idle.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/running-praview-with-amd-radeon/8556/8 "2021-12-03T16:14:15Z")
please share your dataset.