Raspberry Pi GPU?

[owen_a]

Hi,

Is it possible to add the Raspberry PI GPU? I believe the one the Pi 3 uses is a Broadcom VideoCore IV chip.

Be interesting as a lot of people have spare PI's laying around (I know I do anyway) and since the GPU will be much faster than the CPU it could help contribute quite a bit to projects.

[JimboPalmer]

No.

AMD funded the AMD GPU client, Nvidia funded the Nvidia GPU client, Sony Funded the PS3 client and the Android Client.

I see no one with deep pockets to fund a Raspberry Pie client.

If you have a large donor in hand, I see two technical problems: F@H needs at least OpenCL 1.2 and it needs a GPU that can do Double Precision floating point math.

I see the Pi using a subset of OpenCL, and do not know if that subset is enough. I can't find anyone discussing the math capabilities of the GPU.

[owen_a]

No.

AMD funded the AMD GPU client, Nvidia funded the Nvidia GPU client, Sony Funded the PS3 client and the Android Client.

I see no one with deep pockets to fund a Raspberry Pie client.

If you have a large donor in hand, I see two technical problems: F@H needs at least OpenCL 1.2 and it needs a GPU that can do Double Precision floating point math.

I see the Pi using a subset of OpenCL, and do not know if that subset is enough. I can't find anyone discussing the math capabilities of the GPU.

Fair enough, worth asking just in case. Thanks for the reply.

[toTOW]

Plus anything ARM based (CPU or GPU) is basically not designed for intensive computing but for low power applications.