1) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : AMD GPU Status for 2013? (Message 28315)
Posted 4102 days ago by Profile Mumps [MM]
Hi All,

We have no plans for an AMD app right now. As you may recall, we did have an OpenCL build ready some years ago, but the AMD drivers were never stable enough - and performance too low - for us to want to deploy it. Since then, we've worked further on the Nvidia application to improve its features and performance, and it would now be substantial effort to rejuvenate the AMD OpenCL code.


I don't understand this. What is "Nvidia application"? Do you mean CUDA? I though both nVidia and AMD both depreciated their CUDA and CAL, in favor of OpenCL. Furthermore, even if CUDA is not yet dead, it surely will be eventually. Time to stop optimizing a dead end, and make OpenCL work. Or there will be no cards that can crunch GPUGRID in the end.


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