OpenCL With An Intel Celeron: HD Graphics 610 / Kabylake GT1

Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 3 February 2017 at 06:18 AM EST. 5 Comments
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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...
OpenCL 2.0 Intel Beignet CPU Celeron Kabylake Comparison

Tests were done on Clear Linux with Linux 4.9, Mesa 17.0-dev, and Beignet 1.3.
OpenCL 2.0 Intel Beignet CPU Celeron Kabylake Comparison

OpenCL 2.0 Intel Beignet CPU Celeron Kabylake Comparison

This Kabylake Celeron was running with the OpenCL compute potential of a Pentium from the Skylake era.
OpenCL 2.0 Intel Beignet CPU Celeron Kabylake Comparison

OpenCL 2.0 Intel Beignet CPU Celeron Kabylake Comparison

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.
OpenCL 2.0 Intel Beignet CPU Celeron Kabylake Comparison

OpenCL 2.0 Intel Beignet CPU Celeron Kabylake Comparison

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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