2 ms·
It's funny because AMD was at least rhetorically invested in consumer GPGPU a long time ago with the APU thing.
by mastax 4y ago
It's funny because AMD was at least rhetorically invested in consumer GPGPU a long time ago with the APU thing.
- pjmlp 4y agoWhich were dropped when the open source driver came to be, hence why my Asus 1215B netbook can only do OpenGL 3.3, when it originally was capable of doing OpenGL 4.1 with fglrx.
- dotnet00 4y agoOn top of that, GCN was a beautiful design for compute. Truly ahead of its time and a beast of a chip, as evident by how when running something they actually supported as well as NVIDIA chips, GCN cards would punch well above their gaming weight. It's just a huge shame that they never really got the software sorted out well enough to take advantage of the hardware.