<story><title>AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle</title><url>https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-reckons-it-can-win-the-high-end-gpu-battle-and-dethrone-nvidia-just-like-it-did-with-intel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pixelpoet</author><text>AMD&amp;#x27;s rather old Radeon VII can really smash a 2080 Ti if you&amp;#x27;re doing relatively simple streaming computation, like say video processing. That 1TB&amp;#x2F;s HBM is no joke, and there&amp;#x27;s 16GB of it, at ~half the price of the 2080 Ti with 11GB.&lt;p&gt;Nvidia&amp;#x27;s memory compression is very impressive and allows them to do better with a narrower memory bus in many situations (such as games), however if your data is not so compressible (often the case in GPGPU) this advantage disappears.&lt;p&gt;Really all I care about is a good OpenCL driver implementation, especially OpenCL 2.2 support would be extremely attractive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>&amp;gt; Really all I care about is a good OpenCL driver implementation, especially OpenCL 2.2 support would be extremely attractive.&lt;p&gt;nVidia seem to still only support OpenCL 1.1.&lt;p&gt;Presumably this is a conscious decision - they&amp;#x27;d rather invest in CUDA.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what AMD is up to regarding OpenCL. Have they just quietly dropped all support? [0][1]&lt;p&gt;Intel seem to be doing better, with support for OpenCL 2.1, with support for both CPU and GPU targets. [2]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;community.amd.com&amp;#x2F;thread&amp;#x2F;232600&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;community.amd.com&amp;#x2F;thread&amp;#x2F;232600&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;community.amd.com&amp;#x2F;thread&amp;#x2F;233197&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;community.amd.com&amp;#x2F;thread&amp;#x2F;233197&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;software.intel.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;opencl-drivers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;software.intel.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;opencl-drivers&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle</title><url>https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-reckons-it-can-win-the-high-end-gpu-battle-and-dethrone-nvidia-just-like-it-did-with-intel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pixelpoet</author><text>AMD&amp;#x27;s rather old Radeon VII can really smash a 2080 Ti if you&amp;#x27;re doing relatively simple streaming computation, like say video processing. That 1TB&amp;#x2F;s HBM is no joke, and there&amp;#x27;s 16GB of it, at ~half the price of the 2080 Ti with 11GB.&lt;p&gt;Nvidia&amp;#x27;s memory compression is very impressive and allows them to do better with a narrower memory bus in many situations (such as games), however if your data is not so compressible (often the case in GPGPU) this advantage disappears.&lt;p&gt;Really all I care about is a good OpenCL driver implementation, especially OpenCL 2.2 support would be extremely attractive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bamboozled</author><text>I recently purchased a laptop with an Nvidia&amp;#x2F;Intel composite setup.&lt;p&gt;As a Linux user, I’ll never buy a laptop with an Nvidia GPU again (if I can help it). What a pain.&lt;p&gt;A nice piece of hardware with relatively pathetic software to drive it.</text></comment>