Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU

Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by fulafel on Saturday May 16, 2020 @04:38AM (#23201595)

Yep, you can't of course rely on OpenCL support, you have to provide a fallback. But are there any issues with including the SDK supplied OpenCL ICDs with the APK, for use with validated GPUs?

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Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by pjmlp on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:57AM (#23204478)

Yes, that is not how Android works.

You are not allowed to ship drivers like that, and since version 7, there is kernel validation about stable NDK APIs.

So yeah just because there is an OpenCL SDK for Mali, doesn't mean that a random Android device with Mali will have the drivers or kernel support in place, because that isn't something that Android requires.

Google has collaborated with Adobe in porting their OpenCL shaders to Vulkan.

If they actually cared, they would have made OpenCL available instead.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by fulafel on Sunday May 17, 2020 @05:14AM (#23210749)

I see, thanks for the explanation. Oh well, let's see where things go with Vulkan compute.

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