No OpenCL for 3870 officially confirmed by AMD?

[DualShock]

ATI/AMD just released the Stream 2.0 SDK (beta) with OpenCL 1.0 support.

http://developer.amd.com/GPU/ATISTREAMSDKBETAPROGRAM/Pages/default.aspx

Notice how nothing below an HD 4xxx series is listed.

 

[goMac]

Yep, this would seem to verify that it's a hardware, not a driver issue.

 

[netkas]

just wanted to post it and you already did it, lol

anyway, amd confirmed what I suggested earlier - opencl only for cards with hardware compute shaders, so its 4xxx+ cards

Supported Cards:
ATI Radeon™ HD
5870
5850
5770
5750
4890
4870 X2
4870
4850 X2
4850
4830
4770
4670
4650
4550
4350

 

[MacMur]

Is it true that the GT 120 supports open cl?

 

[J the Ninja]

Is it true that the GT 120 supports open cl?

Yes. Nvidia's OCL implementation seems to be work in with their CUDA implementation (netkas can explain this better than I can, I got the info from his blog). In short: Any Nvidia card with CUDA support and official OS X support is good to go.

 

[gugucom]

Then it is good that we can use it in MP3,1 and 4,1 as a basic card which also works without extra PCIe power. Perhaps I will run it together with a flashed 4870 if I need more power than the GT120 can give me.

 

[cgiugliano27]

just a quick thought

does opencl only tap into graphics processors? what about an external raid enclosure with oxford 936 speed chip(arm processor) connected via esata? basically does opencl tap into any processor attached to the mac?

 

[ungraphic]

Well that really sucks. My 3870s are now officially nearing EOL.....