<div dir="ltr">I am already using openCL on GPU+CPU with an nvidia card and an intel cpu. The thing is that it is a fast processor but not an extremely fast video card, so with opencl they both seem to render at the same speed, which is actually faster than using only the video card with cuda. The problem is, however, that on systems with a faster GPU, the tile that finishes first (probably gpu tile) needs to wait for the other tile (cpu) to finish before jumping into a new tile, so in systems with a difference in gpu/cpu speed this bottlenecks everything. Is this an opencl bug or a cycles problem? seems like the obvious thing is that even the first tile to finish should jump to the next one right away, but it is not the case with opencl gpu+cpu. I know that this could be considered a bug, but since opencl isn't even officialy supported I'm just commenting on that opencl is already useful, just bottlenecked by this. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-02-12 13:25 GMT-03:00 Nazim Mer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nazim.mer@gmail.com" target="_blank">nazim.mer@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br></div>according that threads participants, AMD 14.1 drivers have a working implementation...<br><a href="http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?254521-A-good-news-for-AMD-ATI-Graphic-cards-owners/page61" target="_blank">http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?254521-A-good-news-for-AMD-ATI-Graphic-cards-owners/page61</a><br>
<br></div>With that in mind, any developer thats adding features to cycles should now consider using conventions and code suitable enough to work on both CUDA and Opencl Capable devices.....<br><br></div>Bare in mind that INTEL,NVIDIA and AMD use opencl.....<br>
<br></div>Getting things a step closer to multi-platformness should be an objective for blender cycles.....<br><br></div>As well focus on opencl bug reports(commencing February 1st 2014)<br><br></div>And finally optimizations for the opencl implementation of cycles...<br>
<br></div>Peace out<br><br></div>PS can cycles developers review the following quote, and possible reflect this on the cycles code/kernel.....<br><br><div><i><b>So, in the end, for practical purposes pretty much only the basic features already enabled by default will work.<br>
<br>
These are the features I really haven't been able to enable in any way:<br>
<br>
__LAMP_MIS__ --> doubles the OpenCL kernel build time, PC hangs or Blender crashes when the render starts<br>
__CAMERA_MOTION__ --> errors in console<br>
__HAIR__ --> needs #__MULTI_CLOSURE to not end up in console
errors, but makes Blender crash when compiling the OpenCL kernel
otherwise
</b></i><div><div><div><div><div><div><br>Peace<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 January 2014 14:31, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emmi.spammi@t-online.de" target="_blank">emmi.spammi@t-online.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I'm also following the developement/fixing of the ATI issues. It seems<br>
to work. I can render on my AMD Pitcairn.<br>
However it is much slower than my CPU (which was not the original<br>
intention ;)).<br>
<br>
I would be interested in any news of performance improvements.<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
<br>
Emanuel<br>
<br>
PS: CPU: Intel i5-4570 (3,2GHz); GPU: AMD Radeon HD7850 1GB<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Am 03.01.2014 14:24, schrieb Gottfried Hofmann:<br>
<div>> Check this threa, especially the last few pages:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?254521-A-good-news-for-AMD-ATI-Graphic-cards-owners" target="_blank">http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?254521-A-good-news-for-AMD-ATI-Graphic-cards-owners</a><br>
><br>
> Seems like there is hope for AMD users...<br>
><br>
> On 01/03/2014 02:12 PM, Geo A wrote:<br>
>> Are there any news regarding cycles being compatible with AMD cpus or<br>
>> ATI gpus sooner or later?<br>
><br>
<br>
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