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As a programmer, I have high hopes for HSA. I wish Intel would adopt it or join the HSA consortium and get onboard. That would push APUs forward for everyone.
OpenCL 2.0 includes unified CPU & GPU virtual addresses (SVM - shared virtual memory).
As a programmer, I have high hopes for HSA. I wish Intel would adopt it or join the HSA consortium and get onboard. That would push APUs forward for everyone.
Intel's pushing OpenCL, which seems to me gives most of the advantages of HSA. OpenCL 2.0 includes unified CPU & GPU virtual addresses (SVM - shared virtual memory).
Can anyone explain how this works and why should a user want it? It seems like a DRM on your device.
I wonder if stagnating CPU requirements might make AMD competitive again. I have a 4 year old i5 laptop that can handle 100% of general office/home use. Battery life and gaming are the only two weak points. AMD aren't going to compete with Intel on battery life but with overall cpu/gpu power consumption falling it's not as big of a problem as it used to be. Wish they weren't stuck on 28nm still. It seems like Intel w…
I wonder what would happen when the process shrinks stop in say 5 to 10 years.
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Intel's pushing OpenCL, which seems to me gives most of the advantages of HSA. OpenCL 2.0 includes unified CPU & GPU virtual addresses (SVM - shared virtual memory).
And so does CUDA, which usually out-performs OpenCL, plus the tooling for CUDA is just so much better with the Visual Studio integration.
I always get disappointed when I see something that CUDA specific. "Hey that's interesting machine learning package! Oh wait, that's Nvidia specific."
With OpenCL, you can develop on laptop, test on workstation and deploy on actual servers. With CUDA, you're trapped.
Dr.Su did not have a good tracking record and I never got it why she was picked as the CEO, but it's not all her fault though, AMD has been in decline for years, I just hope someone will buy it before it totally collapses.
Additionally, Intel is battling with ARM/Samsung etc and the need for AMD as a competitor(i.e. to avoid monopoly litigation) is gone too.
Sigh.
These days when I read news like this, my first response is that, does AMD have any chance to survive at all? The technical details for any new chip is secondary. Dr.Su did not have a good tracking record and I never got it why she was picked as the CEO, but it's not all her fault though, AMD has been in decline for years, I just hope someone will buy it before it totally collapses. Additionally, Intel is battling wi…
AMD has to stop naming their products like this. I mean look at Intel, i3,i5,i7. I can at-least guess which one's better. Yes I do understand that Intel too has many different names that caters to different markets, yet somehow Intel’s names are far more easier for me to understand, they are far more shorter, and if I want more details about the processor I can read what’s after the "Intel-i7-xxxx" and figure what it…
If you're assuming i7 to be better than i5, you're wrong. Single core clock matters. Some games are barely playable with a low clock i7, but work perfectly on a high clocked i5.