Blender 2.79 Now Available With Much Faster Radeon OpenCL

[andre30correia]

One of the first opensource programs to adopt OpenCL was LibreOffice's Calc, with AMD making a big deal of it, saying that because of it their APUs were faster that Intel's i5s. I remember some time ago that Calc's OpenCL support was very broken. How is it now?

broken yet

[M@GOid]

broken yet

Yeah, I just checked on a Windows machine with a Radeon card, is broken there too.

[oleyska]

That's why they should seize you.

Vega is relatively untouched by miners so far...
I doubt V56 will live very well since the V64 bios can be inserted to V56 to get the memory clocks\Voltage.

I bought V64 and had relative ease getting it.

RX570 and RX580 have been a different story... something is up as they start to pop up in shops but availability is short lived per entry but overall finding a card in stock somewhere is easy nowadays thankfully.

[ermo]

I just bought a reference design RX Vega 64 from Sapphire and was planning to put one of my HD 7970 GHz Ed. cards into my FX-8350 Linux box and play with Blender + OpenCL since I was under the impression that the GCN 1 arch is pretty good at OpenCL.

And then I read this in the Cycles release notes:

Due to various driver issues with AMD GCN 1 cards we can no longer support these GPUs. This patch makes them unavailable to select for Cycles rendering.

source: issue 1f0998b

Hrmpf.

[nomadewolf]

Only possible with AMDGPU proprietary driver. It's useless iwith Mesa, and ROCm Kernel core dumps on Debian with the ROCm stack installed. In short, it's a Work-in-Progress that isn't there yet, for Non-Windows.

But isn't AMD's proprietary driver openSource? So what's the big deal?

[pete910]

But isn't AMD's proprietary driver openSource? So what's the big deal?

No, thus the name proprietary

[nomadewolf]

No, thus the name proprietary

I don't those are mutually exclusive...