OpenCL With An Intel Celeron: HD Graphics 610 / Kabylake GT1
Yesterday I published Linux benchmarks of the Celeron G3930, Intel's lowest-end Celeron CPU at the moment in the Kabylake family. This CPU goes for about $40 USD and you get a dual-core 2.9GHz processor with HD Graphics 610 (GT1). I had published a few OpenGL benchmarks in that review while for this article are some OpenCL compute numbers.
I really can't imagine anyone using OpenCL for serious compute purposes on a Celeron, but given the recent release of Beignet 1.3 with OpenCL 2.0 support, I decided to try it out anyways...
Tests were done on Clear Linux with Linux 4.9, Mesa 17.0-dev, and Beignet 1.3.
This Kabylake Celeron was running with the OpenCL compute potential of a Pentium from the Skylake era.
Or just flat out still comes up short of all other comparison CPUs in other OpenCL compute tests atop the Kabylake GT1 / HD Graphics 610.
Those not turned off by these numbers can dig through more of this OpenCL data via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file. At least it would serve as a cheap test for those on a budget wishing to verify correctness of OpenCL code on Intel GPUs with Beignet or the like, but for performance-sensitive workloads, the numbers are abysmal as expected. See our Intel Celeron G3930 review for other Linux benchmarks of this $40 processor.
I really can't imagine anyone using OpenCL for serious compute purposes on a Celeron, but given the recent release of Beignet 1.3 with OpenCL 2.0 support, I decided to try it out anyways...
Tests were done on Clear Linux with Linux 4.9, Mesa 17.0-dev, and Beignet 1.3.
This Kabylake Celeron was running with the OpenCL compute potential of a Pentium from the Skylake era.
Or just flat out still comes up short of all other comparison CPUs in other OpenCL compute tests atop the Kabylake GT1 / HD Graphics 610.
Those not turned off by these numbers can dig through more of this OpenCL data via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file. At least it would serve as a cheap test for those on a budget wishing to verify correctness of OpenCL code on Intel GPUs with Beignet or the like, but for performance-sensitive workloads, the numbers are abysmal as expected. See our Intel Celeron G3930 review for other Linux benchmarks of this $40 processor.
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