Re: Blender Cycles(Opencl on AMD GPUS)
AMD, my next desktop GPU I buy will be an Nvidia one. Unless you manage to get OpenCL working and performing at it's theoretical levels in cycles, I will never buy an AMD card again. So that's the...
View Articleseveral OpenGL 4.3 diver bugs concerning Comput Shaders
I just wanted to point out some driver bugs. I hunted them for 3 days. On my 780 everything works perfect. Bug 1: void glGetProgramResourceiv(GLuint program, GLenum programInterface, GLuint index,...
View ArticleRe: AMD buffer binding bug?
Same here. It must be a bug concerning the shader storage buffers.My shader storage buffer bindings stop working until I render something with a fragment shader before the actual dispathCompute. When I...
View ArticleOctave 8.3.1 using ACML 6 on Ubuntu 14.04 fails make check with segmentation...
Octave 8.3.1 using ACML 6 on Ubuntu 14.04 fails make check with segmentation fault.I'm still experimenting with GNU Octave 3.8.1 with ACML 6 on Ubuntu 14.04. make check which runs tests in Octave fails...
View ArticleRe: gpu not detected
It seems that I fixed it by reinstalling AMDAPP. I don't know what the problem was.
View ArticleRe: Calculation error on GPU only
Thanks for trying the use-case. What you tested is, that vectorizing the data is a valid workaround: VectorSize 4 In order to reproduce the failure, please copy the mfakto.ini file from...
View ArticleAPP SDK 2.9 documentation outdated and not available online
I have downloaded the latest SDK installer from http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/opencl-tools-sdks/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/downloads/. Following a complete...
View ArticleRe: APP SDK 2.9 documentation outdated and not available online
William Shipman - the links you referenced have been fixed. Thanks for letting us know about the redirects. Apologies for the frustration! The direct link to the documentation is:...
View ArticleRe: APP SDK 2.9 documentation outdated and not available online
Thanks for clearing up that and please go ahead with removing the documentation from the next APP SDK download (but please make testing the links to the documents on your website a higher priority ).
View ArticleRe: Bolt and CUDA on Kaveri + discrete nVidia graphics card
Meteorhead On Windows 7 64-bit one can install both AMD Catalyst drivers and Nvidia drivers and use both AMD and Nvidia GPUs in OpenCL (even in the same application, but with multiple contexts). I do...
View ArticleHow to submit an app that hangs GPU PerfStudio 2 ?
I have used GPU PerfStudio multiple times but recently maybe due to shader changes or video card changes (upgraded to a 280X) PerfStudio is hanging when connecting to my DX11 App ( This is on Windows...
View ArticleRe: asked about AMD Radeon™ HD 6700M Specification
Hi,HD6700 architecture is codenamed as Barts LE. The specifications are given atAMD Radeon™ HD 6790 Graphics
View ArticleRe: AMD Catalyst 14.4 OpenCL driver
Thanks,We will try to reproduce it on our end and get back to you.
View ArticleRe: Please compile this
Hi, Your understanding of qualifiers is correct.This happens to me once i was trying to do same, and i got following error message: "argument of type __global char * is incompatible with parameter if...
View ArticleRe: Measure power consumption
I'm also interested in this! As far as I recall, this functionality is not provided in the GPU service library either.Perhaps there could be at least something system-wide?
View ArticleRe: Re: Please compile this
Thank you Gopal for the confirmations. I have indeed read the CL2 spec and that's something definitely needed. I need to stress that the compiler does not generate any error. It crashes!In retrospect,...
View ArticleRe: No shader tracing support in R7/R9 drivers despite DirectX 11.1/11.2...
Actually Nvidia supports most of the 11.1 features and probably all of 11.2 ( Tiled resources on a GTX 650 worked, I tested it), and I can confirm that I can't create a device with the...
View ArticleRe: APP SDK 2.9 documentation outdated and not available online
Thanks for the information about SDK.
View ArticleRe: Is OpenCL.dll/amdocl.dll bugged?
The problem does not seem to be in OpenCL implementation. How are you using it inside a critical section?
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