New OpenCL Question

[Ocean]

(06-29-2010, 07:23 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:

Quote:Well Im pretty sure my 9500 gt supports OpenCl, but I will search, and I will try waiting sometime for the game to load to see if something happens, thanks for the information.

Yes it does. Any nvidia card in the 8 series or higher automatically supports it. Not sure about ATI.

You're right in saying that 9000+ supports opencl, and there is no question about that.

But are you sure if there is windows support for openCL under 8000 series?

Far as I understood, it can already support CUDA. And since ~195 firmware already added support for opencl across all possible cards that support it, it should show up in gpu-z.

I'm wondering whether it's possible that some manufacturers' 8000 cards don't support it except on mac os x/linux with custom drivers or chipset. Because if you already installed latest forceware (catalyst with ati), OpenCL support should automatically show up. If not, it must be card-related.

Merely interested because some people are posting that their gpu shows no openCL support (in windows) even though it should, and they have latest drivers.

[cdevil]

Does anybody know if my Nvidia GeForce 7150m / nForce 630m supports OpenCL??

[boogerlad]

anything under 8 series does not support opencl.

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:But are you sure if there is windows support for openCL under 8000 series?

Positive. Most 9000 series hards are re-branded 8000 series cards that are identical in every way. My 8800GT for example supports opencl and is based on G92. G92 was also used in 8800GTS, 8800GS, 9600GSO, 9800GT, 9800GTX, 9800GTX+, 9800GX2, and GTS250. Anything supported by 9 series video cards is also supported by 8 series, and vice versa. Not only is the hardware the same but the drivers are the same as well. Only difference is 9 series cards have an updated firmware that supports purevideo 3.0. But opencl can be used on any gpu architecture that supports compute/unified shaders (all 8 series cards do). The only 9 series cards to use a new gpu were the 9600GT (G94), 9500GT (G96), and 9400GT(G96). And neither introduced any new features or major changes.

[Orphis]

OpenCL is supported by GF8 series cards and newer using driver 197 or later on every OS. Driver 195 doesn't work well and has got some major blocking bugs.
I'll test driver 258.69 tomorrow and report if any error occurs.

[obscured]

I'm on the latest driver with my 8800 gts and the textures are all black.

edit: nm dx11 fixed it.

[Ocean]

(07-03-2010, 02:03 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote:

Quote:But are you sure if there is windows support for openCL under 8000 series?

Positive. Most 9000 series hards are re-branded 8000 series cards that are identical in every way. My 8800GT for example supports opencl and is based on G92. G92 was also used in 8800GTS, 8800GS, 9600GSO, 9800GT, 9800GTX, 9800GTX+, 9800GX2, and GTS250. Anything supported by 9 series video cards is also supported by 8 series, and vice versa.

Therefore, as your & the last 2 comments above show, this is a purely driver-related issue & 8000 series cards should support OpenCL.

[iPack]

I can open up a game with OpenCL checked, but I really don't see any sort of speed up my specs are in my sig. I have my DirectX up to date and the latest version of Visual C++. Is there anything I'm missing? I'm using Direct3D9 for graphics plugin, by the way.