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Meteorhead
Challenger
‎10-14-2009 06:07 PM

openCL capable drivers

driver query

My question is, what hardware have a reasonable chance of getting openCL capable drivers in the near future?

I myself have a Mobility Radeon HD 2600, and I was hoping that drivers wouuld reach back to all the DX10 capable hardware.

What can you tell those people whose cards are older than 4xxx series?

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MicahVillmow
Staff
Staff
‎10-14-2009 06:21 PM

Older cards do not have the hardware/feature set required by the OpenCL spec and thus are not supported. We have listed all cards that are supported as it requires features found in the 7XX series chips and later, which correspond to most of the HD4XXX series and later cards.
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thehippo
Journeyman III
‎10-15-2009 01:57 AM

I think this review of the HD 4870 can explain why the HD2 and HD3 series aren't supported:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2008/09/02/ati-radeon-4850-4870-architecture-review/7

(explains what has been changed from previous generations regarding Stream computing)

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