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I guess I'm not understanding something. How are they reversing a trend? Apple spent a lot of time and money developing the OpenCL standard and gaining industr
by yan 17y ago
I guess I'm not understanding something. How are they reversing a trend?
Apple spent a lot of time and money developing the OpenCL standard and gaining industry support. OpenCL isn't strictly about GPGPU computing, it's about maximally utilizing available resources. AMD is adopting the standard, and they just implemented the CPU portion of it for now and went ahead to release it. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that they'll follow up with supporting GPU target. So if anything, they're embracing the trend, just trying to bring their tools to completion.
So yeah, the current SDK doesn't support GPU targets, but how is this in any way shape or form reversing the trend?
- plesn 17y agoExactly, I would even argue that without OpenCL on CPU (which can serve e.g. as a fall-back when your GPU can't do it), OpenCL wouldn't make sense.