Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Future use of integrated GPUs
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Are there any plans of supporting integrated GPUs in the future? They are becoming quite powerful recently, and most of us running intel processors are stuck with them. | |
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Werkstatt Send message Joined: 23 May 09 Posts: 121 Credit: 358,450,664 RAC: 1,907,935 Level  Scientific publications     | |
Are there any plans of supporting integrated GPUs in the future? They are becoming quite powerful recently, and most of us running intel processors are stuck with them. Integrated gpu's do not apply to intel only. I'm running an AMD A10 7700, most of the time 2 wu's at a time (sharing with one poem wu). http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?hostid=196771 | |
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ExtraTerrestrial Apes Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications  | |
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Whatever the AMD GPUs can run via OpenCL can possibly also run on Intel GPUs, if there are not show-stopping driver bugs. Sicne the current beta AMD app uses the GPU as co-processor for the CPU, the usual "GPU-Grid can only make good use of very fast GPUs" may not apply. | |
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Werkstatt Send message Joined: 23 May 09 Posts: 121 Credit: 358,450,664 RAC: 1,907,935 Level Scientific publications | |
Whatever the AMD GPUs can run via OpenCL can possibly also run on Intel GPUs, if there are not show-stopping driver bugs. Sicne the current beta AMD app uses the GPU as co-processor for the CPU, the usual "GPU-Grid can only make good use of very fast GPUs" may not apply. Does that mean, that in the near future the Linux users see an advantage over the win users? The new kernel 3.19 supports advanced features for AMD data transfer between CPU and GPU see http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Neuerungen-von-Linux-3-19-2541595.html (sorry, german) | |
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The AMD application will work on AMD CPUs with iGPUs. Intel iGPUs are not supported, and are unlikely to be any time soon. They're not at all good for compute. | |
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Hi ! UP ! Anybody to answer my question please ? ____________ Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS x64 | |
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We don't have an AMD application for Linux - only Windows Matt | |
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OK, thanks for answering ! ____________ Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS x64 | |
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ExtraTerrestrial Apes Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
Does that mean, that in the near future the Linux users see an advantage over the win users? One would have to program explicitly to use the HSA features. And tey woudln't apply to discrete GPUs, which are surely providing the most AMD throughput. I don't expect Matt to specialize to much in AMD iGPUs. Regarding the Linux advantage: they're usually faster at adapting new technologies (if there are enough knowledgable people who care), but if it starts to matter Win will also get those features. So I wouldn'T expect this to provide any significant advantage to Linux. Unless you start to write your own HSA enabled program today ;) Matt wrote: They're not at all good for compute. They're working nicely at Einstein@Home. Apart from the point where Intel broke the driver and it took them over hald a year to fix it (not sure if they succeeded, actually). In quote a few OpenCL benchmarks the Intel GPUs achieve respectable scores compared to AMDs iGPUs, though. And there are many of them. If the AMD iGPUs are of any interest for you, taking a closer look at the Intels might be worth the time.. although supporting two more platforms (AMD & Intel) really sounds like a nightmare for a small team. MrS ____________ Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002 | |
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