From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Sep 2 23:42:24 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D763CFFCF36 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2018 23:42:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomek.cedro@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vk0-f68.google.com (mail-vk0-f68.google.com [209.85.213.68]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8529B8CB1E for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2018 23:42:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomek.cedro@gmail.com) Received: by mail-vk0-f68.google.com with SMTP id e139-v6so7202754vkf.6 for ; Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:42:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=+IAc1OX6V2TDP5g1CkHP8xOzHSH6lxzK6/vMtyBpaeM=; b=qdiTpA10lCOfETUXQsKgp1mlfOFpUc7/gAW/DImmiVigAIfLHZc+1vhY5IY3Tm/Egk 3WRucAMt2dRiDrSnl8UMV9nFmBGDuXupQORFUg7h5hhDtZo6ai4UVySnX6x+EBD3fjnO 80/+B+NA2vsNw9Z8SVFMQr2/hIlAesrAqtZImff9N2Ho89NoBpW/bn9sZA0FGBvRtvw8 smmi87SQVtFrONxn/B1ilSg4PqXYf6n09t7aPNExxpoWe42Tz0dQQ51PNpvgtpwoZ+FW MpcgXwGHyZ8VaAVJ1yVTGMgG5hpIaa+FPRnxN8QQBUg4p/kbcVR2+qefwx7SXpjt4cEu Vhlw== X-Gm-Message-State: APzg51ChTjOQ6Ozc73QTa0hDt13vL2cKfeYrEyAzzR8qOKrDUiksRswb u1FihkRFnUhnP2r6jcHdzII5uO5Src+AQrBYSUHjFMQg X-Google-Smtp-Source: ANB0VdZtz4jZaKOw5UOpFAtI90eGAXaYq7MSZq6FN3mf8ofYygX5FBel3YWELdBW+FPjvmWBFAhVS9M0/hI+wSSBHMo= X-Received: by 2002:a1f:2047:: with SMTP id g68-v6mr13337030vkg.103.1535925271006; Sun, 02 Sep 2018 14:54:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20180902114502.e59ab940d98cd43cd6f1ca11@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20180902114502.e59ab940d98cd43cd6f1ca11@sohara.org> From: CeDeROM Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 23:55:21 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD OpenCL/CUDA nVidia To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2018 23:42:25 -0000 On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 12:45 PM Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > What is the current AMD/ATI support for Open-Source? Do they provide > > full GPU specification as opposed to nVidia? > > AMD/ATI opened up their interfaces and some core source code about a > decade ago they still produce a closed source driver of their own but they > support the open source Linux video driver apparently enthusiastically > (according to one report it is now faster than the closed source one). > > Both Intel and AMD/ATI provide open source OpenCL stacks > > It really is nVidia that is the odd one out - but they do hold the > high end of the hardware, the cards gamers and cryptocurrency miners lust > after are all nVidia. Hmm, then I could consider ATI/AMD Radeon RX570 or 2x cheaper RX560.. anyone had any experience with those beasts and OpenCL on FreeBSD (and outside)? :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info