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Couldn't we just re-purpose the G in GPU to stand for "general" rather than "graphics"?
I think VPU (for vector) is the most descriptive.
There should exists such devices and be open from day 1.
It’s Time to Open Up the GPU
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Side question: does anyone have links on some power bounds for what the Bitcoin network is currently consuming? Understand it would be a very rough estimate, but seems like it would be possible to arrive at some kind of number given electricity prices as a ceiling and state of the art efficiency as a floor. Curious on what the magnitude is in relation to other things...
The power/monetary cost of 1 megahash is going to be different in Australia than it is in China.
That's why I said "bounds".
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#93It is really exciting to see AMD opening up, especially in GPU driver area - arguably the weakest point for the free software. I hope this will go further than "1 step forward, 2 steps backward" approach same AMD showed with libreboot involvement: https://libreboot.org/faq/#amdbastards https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10895021
Hey, what about Intel? They suck even more: https://libreboot.org/faq/#intel
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I have not. Care to give us some insite? It's kind of an expensive experiment. It's not like trying out emacs for a week. Unfortunately, I know that an nvidea will work, so I buy that even though it's not open
Huge improvement over what they used to be, and these days I get way better performance with it than fglrx.
I can confirm that radeon gives much better performance than it did even a year ago. Anecdotally, I used to get a maximum on 30 fps on a 2003 first person shooter game. Now I can easily get 125 stable with the latest drivers, or at least 71 fps in maps that are foggy, smoky etc.
Re: It’s Time to Open Up the GPU
#95I wanted to add my GPU compute library for Clojure to their list of libraries, and there is no option to send them anything. So, it seems that gpuopen site is open for AMD to promote whatever they deem promotable. Not very open for this age in my opinion.
Try to email the author: nicolas.thibieroz@amd.com
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