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Have a look at the NEO OpenCL driver.

They also have a brand new OpenCL stack which is very good.
But it won't be enough for them to whitelist it.
Eventually they will, but it would only be thanks to the discrete Intel GPUs.

JimboPalmer wrote:No Intel GPU has an OpenCL driver to my knowledge.

Intel GPUs have MULTIPLE OpenCL drivers (Neo, Beignet...), at least on Linux. They're even capable of OpenCL 2+, which Nvidia doesn't.

Against that is how much they can already contribute using the existing A7 CPU core. Looking at the benchmarks the iGPU is already much faster than the CPU, but the real question is: do you prefer raw power or the problem solving flexibility of a general purpose CPU? If PPDs are a true estimate of ...

Today's ad for a local electronics store advertises a name brand computer with a "6th Gen Intel Core i7 processor" and "Radeon RX-480 graphics." Does it qualify as being part of the Intel's 70%? It qualifies as Intel as well as Nvidia, in fact the owner of such computer will be ...

Do you have a source that rates the Intel Graphics in terms of Single Precision GFLOPS? Here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_ ... s_Graphics Mine is an Ultra Low Power HD Graphics 5500, capable of 364.8 GFLOPS and scores 3.8875 points with an unoptimized OpenCL stack. Iris Plus Graphi...

foldy wrote:OT: I guess for AMD we need to wait for Vega GPU getting released this summer. It should then match the GTX 1080 in PPD and watts.

That would be a shame, I really hope Vega will be faster.

So a scaled score of about 10 I agree on your estimate, that's what I would expect too. Don't you think it is enough to reach the deadline? Even an AMD HD7950 like mine (which is a modern, high end GCN 1.0 card) should score about 30 points at stock frequencies and it's far from being the slowest o...

Here it is: $ ./Built/bin/FAHBench-cmd FAHBench Simulation ------------------- Plugin directory: "/home/niko/devel/fahbench/Built/lib/openmm" Work unit: dhfr WU Name: Dihydrofolate reductase WU Description: A common system for benchmarking molecular dynamics System XML: /home/niko/devel/fa...

Trouble folding and running FAHBench AMD GPU's has also been reported in connection with the open source OpenCL implementation as compared to using the AMD provided one. AMD's current OpenCL implementation is a joke, unfortunately :( Lately there is one guy actively working on it, so there could be...

As for just whitelisting the current Intel GPU's and later more powerful ones, that is not enough. A separate GPU folding core based on OpenMM using OpenCL would also need to be coded, tested and then released. That is just like there being separate AMD and nVidia GPU folding cores. Doesn't the Nvi...

(A) the development costs of a new capability Which development? You mean the whitelisting, the testing and some minor modifications (if needed)? (B) having a class of projects to assign to that hardware class. There are no active GPU projects with deadlines long enough for the typical iGPU Who sai...

I fold with an Ivy Bridge 3770K@5Ghz and an AMD HD7950@1200/6000 (~200K PPD total). Sometimes I even wonder if my system is still worth the current it consumes considering a single 1080 Ti folds 1500K PPD (7x faster), so I have no personal interest for Intel GPUs. Still, do you have any OpenCL numbe...

What about Beignet? It provides decent OpenCL 2 support with decent performance. Iris PRO cards with eDRAM should be fast enough to be worth it and it the future it can only improve.
If the Windows driver is not good enough then fuck Windows and simply support Linux.

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