I'm having the same issue metashape says there is 0 VRAM, but the VRAM utilization is only at 18% of 8GB
My console readout is below. I have a threadripper 1920x so it's still going relatively fast on CPU anyway.
Saving project...
saved project in 1.35 sec
BuildDenseCloud: quality = High, depth filtering = Mild, reuse depth maps, point colors = 1
Generating dense point cloud...
Generating dense point cloud...
initializing...
selected 67 cameras in 0.784 sec
working volume: 2451x2164x699
tiles: 1x1x1
saved dense cloud data in 0.006 sec
saved regions in 0.007 sec
saved camera partition in 0.006 sec
scheduled 4 depth filtering groups
scheduled 1 dense cloud regions
loaded camera partition in 0 sec
loaded dense cloud data in 0.001 sec
filtering 16 depth maps...
using 67 depth maps including neighbors (2.40073 GB)
preloading data... done in 2.919 sec
filtering IMG_6950 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.881 sec (load: 0.86, render: 0.821 filter: 4.2)
filtering IMG_6951 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.128 sec (load: 0.347, render: 0.762 filter: 4.019)
filtering IMG_6952 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.037 sec (load: 0.353, render: 0.749 filter: 3.935)
filtering IMG_6953 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.133 sec (load: 0.316, render: 0.754 filter: 4.063)
filtering IMG_6954 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.164 sec (load: 0.366, render: 0.774 filter: 4.024)
filtering IMG_6955 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.248 sec (load: 0.336, render: 0.768 filter: 4.144)
filtering IMG_7007 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.189 sec (load: 0.325, render: 0.77 filter: 4.094)
filtering IMG_7008 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.13 sec (load: 0.324, render: 0.781 filter: 4.025)
filtering IMG_7009 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.167 sec (load: 0.335, render: 0.767 filter: 4.065)
filtering IMG_7010 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.377 sec (load: 0.333, render: 0.784 filter: 4.26)
filtering IMG_7011 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.476 sec (load: 0.323, render: 0.788 filter: 4.365)
filtering IMG_7012 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.649 sec (load: 0.361, render: 0.87 filter: 4.418)
filtering IMG_7013 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.681 sec (load: 0.389, render: 0.856 filter: 4.436)
filtering IMG_7014 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.259 sec (load: 0.338, render: 0.8 filter: 4.121)
filtering IMG_7015 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.2 sec (load: 0.327, render: 0.796 filter: 4.077)
filtering IMG_7016 using 66 neighbors... done in 5.207 sec (load: 0.332, render: 0.778 filter: 4.097)
filtered 16 depth maps in 89.095 sec
saved depth maps block in 0.039 sec
loaded camera partition in 0.001 sec
loaded dense cloud data in 0.001 sec
filtering 17 depth maps...
using 67 depth maps including neighbors (2.40073 GB)
preloading data... done in 2.709 sec
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3935979 points extracted in 19.944 sec
saved dense cloud in 0.281 sec
loaded regions in 0 sec
loaded dense cloud data in 0.001 sec
joining 1 dense point clouds
dense clouds joined in 0.222 sec
loaded camera partition in 0 sec
loaded regions in 0 sec
Finished processing in 338.911 sec
Saving project...
saved project in 0.17 sec
BuildDenseCloud: quality = High, depth filtering = Mild, reuse depth maps, point colors = 1
Generating depth maps...
Initializing...
sorting point cloud... done in 0.015 sec
processing matches... done in 0.008 sec
initializing...
selected 57 cameras from 57 in 0.081 sec
groups: 19 19 19
160 of 57 used (280.702%)
scheduled 3 depth map groups
saved depth map partition in 0.006 sec
loaded depth map partition in 0.002 sec
Initializing...
Radeon RX Vega (gfx900): no SPIR support
Found 1 GPUs in 0 sec (CUDA: 0 sec, OpenCL: 0 sec)
Using device: Radeon RX Vega (gfx900), 56 compute units, free memory: 0/8176 MB, OpenCL 2.0
driver version: 3188.4 (PAL,HSAIL), platform version: OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (3188.4)
max work group size 256
max work item sizes [1024, 1024, 1024]
max mem alloc size 6732 MB
wavefront width 64
Using OpenCL device 'Radeon RX Vega (gfx900)' in concurrent. (2 times)
Loading photos...
loaded photos in 3.735 seconds
Generating depth maps...
Free VRAM: 0 MB, maximum allocation required: 3 MB, memory required: 14 MB
Error: Failure at hierarchical_stereo.cpp:165
GPU processing failed, switching to CPU mode
[CPU] estimating 1838x758x128 disparity using 919x758x8u tiles
Free VRAM: 0 MB, maximum allocation required: 3 MB, memory required: 14 MB
Error: Failure at hierarchical_stereo.cpp:165
GPU processing failed, switching to CPU mode
[CPU] estimating 1801x761x192 disparity using 901x761x8u tiles
timings: rectify: 0.102 disparity: 3.614 borders: 0.019 filter: 0.058 fill: 0
Free VRAM: 0 MB, maximum allocation required: 3 MB, memory required: 14 MB
Error: Failure at hierarchical_stereo.cpp:165
GPU processing failed, switching to CPU mode
[CPU] estimating 1751x754x224 disparity using 876x754x8u tiles
timings: rectify: 0.168 disparity: 3.656 borders: 0.028 filter: 0.07 fill: 0
Free VRAM: 0 MB, maximum allocation required: 3 MB, memory required: 13 MB
Error: Failure at hierarchical_stereo.cpp:165
GPU processing failed, switching to CPU mode
[CPU] estimating 1716x744x288 disparity using 858x744x8u tiles
timings: rectify: 0.027 disparity: 3.566 borders: 0.02 filter: 0.135 fill: 0
Free VRAM: 0 MB, maximum allocation required: 1 MB, memory required: 7 MB