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Re:AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle by MaxBarraclough on Sunday February 02, 2020 @06:19AM (#22216436)
> Really all I care about is a good OpenCL driver implementation, especially OpenCL 2.2 support would be extremely attractive.

nVidia seem to still only support OpenCL 1.1.

Presumably this is a conscious decision - they'd rather invest in CUDA.

I have no idea what AMD is up to regarding OpenCL. Have they just quietly dropped all support? [0][1]

Intel seem to be doing better, with support for OpenCL 2.1, with support for both CPU and GPU targets. [2]

[0] https://community.amd.com/thread/232600

[1] https://community.amd.com/thread/233197

[2] https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/opencl-drivers

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Re:AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle by kouteiheika on Sunday February 02, 2020 @06:59AM (#22216555)
> nVidia seem to still only support OpenCL 1.1.

This hasn't been true for quite some time now. They support 1.2.

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Re:AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle by MaxBarraclough on Sunday February 02, 2020 @07:29AM (#22216649)
Interesting - their website says 1.1 [0] but they apparently released a driver in 2015 which supported 1.2 on certain chipsets [1].

[0] https://developer.nvidia.com/opencl

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/29607373/

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