Gallium Clover With SPIR-V & NIR Opening Up New Compute Options Inside Mesa

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Gallium Clover With SPIR-V & NIR Opening Up New Compute Options Inside Mesa

One of the XDC2018 talks I was most looking forward to was the presentation by Red Hat's Karol Herbst and Rob Clark on their work with SPIR-V/NIR support inside Mesa for the context of OpenCL/compute support, which includes getting GPGPU computing on the Nouveau and Freedreno drivers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Gallium-Clover-NIR-SPIR-V-XDC18

[cb88]

They need to just quit wasting their employers time and money and buy AMD cards... in the time they've wasted working on getting NVidia's crap working with NIR they could have had a fully open source OpenCL on Intel And NVidia in addition to having tons of money left over for hardware.

[Prescience500]

Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't resources be better invested in working on reverse engineering reclocking and what not? AMD didn't go all in on open source until they saw future cost savings. NVIDIA may be the same way. It may have to be obviously beneficial to them for using open source drivers in their best interest because right now it's clearly not.

[fuzz]

They need to just quit wasting their employers time and money and buy AMD cards... in the time they've wasted working on getting NVidia's crap working with NIR they could have had a fully open source OpenCL on Intel And NVidia in addition to having tons of money left over for hardware.

It would be nice if Red Hat would push Lenovo to start using AMD in their thinkpads. Even if only ryzen APUs.

[cb88]

It would be nice if Red Hat would push Lenovo to start using AMD in their thinkpads. Even if only ryzen APUs.

Not sure what you mean... Lenovo already has Ryzen Thinkpads available. Thinkpad 285 and 485 are both Raven Ridge based thinkpads. And there are also the E series models that have the same chips with a bit lesser build quality.

2700U + 4GB + 1080p + backlit keyboard + 72Wh cylindrical battery ... for about $1150 ..... then you'd probably want to to add a 3rd party SSD, 3rd party ram is also about $50 cheaper if you want to save a bit. Totaling about $1400-1500 depending on SSD size. Note if you want to skimp on the SSD you can get a 480GB sata ssd for $55-$64 the Inland Pro 480GB.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops...NUS0/customize

[fuzz]

Not sure what you mean... Lenovo already has Ryzen Thinkpads available. Thinkpad 285 and 485 are both Raven Ridge based thinkpads. And there are also the E series models that have the same chips with a bit lesser build quality.

2700U + 4GB + 1080p + backlit keyboard + 72Wh cylindrical battery ... for about $1150 ..... then you'd probably want to to add a 3rd party SSD, 3rd party ram is also about $50 cheaper if you want to save a bit. Totaling about $1400-1500 depending on SSD size. Note if you want to skimp on the SSD you can get a 480GB sata ssd for $55-$64 the Inland Pro 480GB.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops...NUS0/customize

It exists, but it's extremely limited in models and not something I could use to get work done. Or are 15"+ laptops not cool any more? I'd have to migrate from a W540, for comparison.

[cb88]

It exists, but it's extremely limited in models and not something I could use to get work done. Or are 15"+ laptops not cool any more? I'd have to migrate from a W540, for comparison.

It was probably viewed that the U series wasn't competitive in larger workstation-ish laptops so they'll probably release larger ones with H series (higher TDP / performance but it's the same chip). You'll also get specs bumped from 2.2Ghz base to 3.3Ghz base but the same 3.8Ghz boost as 2700U it will probably be able to hold it there much longer though.

DDR4 speeds also increased to 3200Mhz , 2700U only goes to 2400Mhz.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-7-2800H-SoC.325722.0.html