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0 pointshobofan6y ago0 comments

> The driver api is very close to the opencl api and is very low level.

They are only realistically comparable from OpenCL 2.0 onwards. But no NVIDIA card supports anything beyond 1.2, and with that decision they basically killed OpenCL.

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rrss6y ago

FWIW ROCm, which is what AMD has indicated they will be investing in moving forward, doesn't support OpenCL 2.0 either.

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0 pointshobofan6y ago0 comments

> The driver api is very close to the opencl api and is very low level.

They are only realistically comparable from OpenCL 2.0 onwards. But no NVIDIA card supports anything beyond 1.2, and with that decision they basically killed OpenCL.

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rrss6y ago

FWIW ROCm, which is what AMD has indicated they will be investing in moving forward, doesn't support OpenCL 2.0 either.

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