FreeBSD OpenCL/CUDA nVidia
CeDeROM
cederom at tlen.pl
Sun Sep 2 23:42:25 UTC 2018
On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 12:45 PM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:
> > What is the current AMD/ATI support for Open-Source? Do they provide
> > full GPU specification as opposed to nVidia?
>
> AMD/ATI opened up their interfaces and some core source code about a
> decade ago they still produce a closed source driver of their own but they
> support the open source Linux video driver apparently enthusiastically
> (according to one report it is now faster than the closed source one).
>
> Both Intel and AMD/ATI provide open source OpenCL stacks
>
> It really is nVidia that is the odd one out - but they do hold the
> high end of the hardware, the cards gamers and cryptocurrency miners lust
> after are all nVidia.
Hmm, then I could consider ATI/AMD Radeon RX570 or 2x cheaper RX560..
anyone had any experience with those beasts and OpenCL on FreeBSD (and
outside)? :-)
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