First OpenCL benchmarks test on Mac

[Borgleader]

if anyone should know, it's you guys i've already quit my job, the next move is yours to make.

Maybe they're going to hire him?

[pixie]

if anyone should know, it's you guys i've already quit my job, the next move is yours to make.

Maybe they're going to hire him?

ufff I got it all wrong then

[juan_irender]

Don´t forget that this demo of a simple pathtracer employs very lightweight scene geometry, in a near future maybe graphics cards may have much more memory than actually does, to cope with much more complex scene geometry.

By much more memory what do you mean? 'Cuz the HD5970 has like 2Gb

I think in a near future openCL dedicated hardware will follow the NVida Tesla path, perhaps in the form of PCI cards:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_te ... 70_us.html

[psor]

Dade playing (video) a bit with his "new toy". ;o))



take care
psor

[Borgleader]

Don´t forget that this demo of a simple pathtracer employs very lightweight scene geometry, in a near future maybe graphics cards may have much more memory than actually does, to cope with much more complex scene geometry.

By much more memory what do you mean? 'Cuz the HD5970 has like 2Gb

I think in a near future openCL dedicated hardware will follow the NVida Tesla path, perhaps in the form of PCI cards:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_te ... 70_us.html

Sounds like another "physX card" type thing, interesting for enthusiasts, unknown to most consumers.

[juan_irender]

Sounds like another "physX card" type thing, interesting for enthusiasts, unknown to most consumers.

1500 $ for the actual baseline Tesla, seems a bit overpriced for a toy .
No, what I mean is that future GPUs products could be less game (directX) oriented, we will see.

[juan_irender]

Two links related with Tesla products:
- The Dell Precision T7500 WS, go to the "GPU computing" section: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/ ... =bsd&cs=04
- The TSubame supercomputer of Tokyo Institute of Technology, recently upgraded with 170 Tesla units: http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-NV ... 8136.shtml

[SaphireS]

Just stumbled upon this:
Luxrender with OpenCL (SmallLuxGPU)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnFzpYCl ... re=channel

I hope there's some secret development going on at glaretec.
Don't want Luxrender to be the first unbiased renderer to officially support OpenCL.

[StompinTom]

That looks pretty badass....

Hope Glare is working on something just as cool, if not cooler!

[psor]

I don't care who is being first. At some point all important render engines will support it anyway. ;o))
Take a look at the thread at beyond3d. It's quite scary how fast a Radeon HD 5870 is working.
Especially if you have in mind that Fermi is at the horizon.



take care
psor

[neo0.]

I don't care who is being first. At some point all important render engines will support it anyway. ;o))
Take a look at the thread at beyond3d. It's quite scary how fast a Radeon HD 5870 is working.
Especially if you have in mind that Fermi is at the horizon.



take care
psor

OnoSendai picked a wonderful time to go on vacation. I mean, 340 k samples per sec..? Im lucky if I can pull 50k...

[fused]

340 k samples per sec..? Im lucky if I can pull 50k...

340K or more is not actually uncommon if you have a quadcore.
with an i7 you can get 1000K+ in simple scenes.

[pixie]

340 k samples per sec..? Im lucky if I can pull 50k...

340K or more is not actually uncommon if you have a quadcore.
with an i7 you can get 1000K+ in simple scenes.

Or even 2000k if you have two!

[fused]

show-off

[neo0.]

What do you mean by simple? Currently, I have a wineglass scene with around 25,000 polies.. Simple like that?

EDIT : Someone buy me an i7 pleaasseee?