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Intel Arc A770 & A750 Get Benchmarked in OpenCL and Vulkan
Following the official launch of Intel’s A770 last week (and subsequent, and significantly quieter A750), speculation on exactly how good (or bad) these graphics cards will be has been a huge talking point among the community. Particularly since Intel has been more than coy on the subject. And just to…
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Intel Arc Alchemist Flagship GPU Spotted on Geekbench OpenCL
Although there is still no official news surrounding Intel’s upcoming Arc Alchemist dedicated desktop graphics cards (other than the fact that they are currently scheduled to release in Q2), one of the biggest questions from the gaming community is exactly where they’re going to sit on the comparative performance landscape.…
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AMD Polaris 12 Spotted With 640 Stream Processors
Within the nest month or so, AMD is set to launch their RX 500 series of graphics card. Largely based on a refresh of the Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 GPUs powering the RX 400 series, there are several new cards in the works as well. One of those is…
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First AMD Vega OpenCL Benchmarks Appear
AMD has taken most headlines with the Ryzen launch, but Vega is just around the corner and that might be more interesting for the wider audience. The first third-party benchmarks of the AMD Vega have now appeared, although they’re only OpenCL benchmarks. Still, it’s an interesting first look and it also…
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AMD’s Open Platform Compute to Support OpenCL and More
AMD has divulged more information on their Open Compute Platform which deserves some attention. The ROCm officially supports OpenCL 1.2+ which consists of an OpenCL 1.2 compatible runtime and OpenCL 2.0 kernel language. Key features include Coarse Grain SVM, C11 Atomics, OpenCL 2.0 Images Support, Latency to compute optimisation and…
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AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card Review
Introduction The old adage that PC gaming is significantly more expensive than consoles stems from the media coverage and fascination regarding flagship graphics cards. This can lead to the misconception that products designed for a niche, enthusiast audience like the GTX 1080 reflect the cost of graphics hardware to achieve…
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GTX 1080 CompuBench Results Released
With just half a week till the rumoured NDA deadline, more GTX 1080 results are coming out. Using the latest Pascal architecture and GP104 die, the Nvidia GPU has been touted to blow past the Titan X and GTX 980Ti. From leaked 3DMark benchmarks, we already know that the GTX 1080…
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AMD Snags Nvidia Supercomputer Client With FirePro & GPUOpen
When AMD revealed their GPUOpen and Boltzmann Initiative, it seemed like a last-ditch effort to get back some GPU computing and enterprise marketshare. Nvidia had struck first with CUDA and because of its success, many GPU computing platforms have largely been based on CUDA, with OpenCL lagging behind. With the Boltzmann…
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AMD Boltzmann Initiative Brings C++ & CUDA Compiler/Compatibility
While AMD has long-held decent marketshare in the consumer space, the high performance compute segment has long alluded the graphics firm. With the announcement of the so-called Boltzmann Initiative today though, AMD is planning to turn a leaf on their troubles and plow ahead with a better than ever graphics compute toolkit.…
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NVIDIA Releases GeForce 350.05 Hotfix Driver
NVIDIA, though rolling out regular WHQL-signed drivers, has just released a stop-gap GeForce 350.05 Hotfix driver, addressing problems with the recent 349.88 WHQL-signed driver. The Hotfix addresses the following problems, as listed on the NVIDIA website: Battlefield Hardline – crash with Direct X error message on some systems Dragon Age: Inquisition –…
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AMD Catalyst Omega Driver Released Early, Then Pulled
On Friday, AMD’s latest GPU driver, the Catalyst Omega, was prematurely released on – then subsequently pulled from – AMD’s website. The early release was presumably accidental, since links to the driver and to a number of tech site articles announcing the news have been deleted. But, while we await…
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FirePro W8100 Professional Graphics Solution Announced by AMD
AMD has just launched the AMD FirePro W8100 professional graphics card, bringing a new generation of AMD Graphics Core Next architecture as well as even grater workstation performance, which is dubbed to be 38x better than any other competing product on the market. Featuring OpenCL, a best-in-class 8 GB of…
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AMD Unveils The FirePro S10000 12GB Edition GPU Accelerator
AMD announced the new FirePro S10000 12GB Edition graphics card, designed for big data high-performance computing workloads for single precision and double precision performance. The new accelerator is the first in the industry to come with 12GB of onboard memory. “Our compute application customers asked for a solution that offers…
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AMD Collaborate With Adobe For OpenCL “Richland APU” Acceleration
AMD has just announced the results of some of its long standing collaboration with Adobe to bring OpenCL acceleration to programs like Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro. As a result Adobe has just released Photoshop CC and Premiere Pro CC which both feature OpenCL acceleration. These new program revisions from…
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