7970m with AutoCAD, Matlab, Revit, etc

Has anyone used their new 7970m with any of these modeling programs? Do any of them utilize OpenCL? I've been frequenting the Sager forums lately and people are having issues fully utilizing the graphics card in certain programs/games. Apparently this has to do with crappy drivers from AMD. What can I expect from the 7970m with these modeling programs? Nvidia killed Kepler by weakening the gpgpu, so that's a no go for these kinds of programs from what I understand.

 

I don't use any of the programs you listed - however - I benched the 7970m with 12.7 with an OpenCL benchmark tool.
Dunno if this comes handy, maybe with my scores you can compare it with other cards to have a rough idea.
Thread here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/672298-opencl-benchmark-thread.html
Compared to the 6970m the 7970m triplicate the results in OpenCL.

 

triple - increase in magnitude by a factor of 3

triplicate - make 3 copies of

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Matlab doesn't have an OpenCL toolkit, but Matlab is a plug-in / toolkit heavy application. There are 3rd party applications which give you access to parallelization through OpenCL. One of them is free, and in development and available on the file exchange. The other is a paid plugin called Jacket. Even if you want to use Matlab parallel compute with cuda, you'll have to buy a license for that, so you might as well just use jacket.

I'm pretty sure neither autocad nor revit support gpgpu acceleration, although there may be 3rd party rendering plugins available that do.

 

^ sorry im still sorting my English.
Anyway thanks for the correction.

 

I'm being anecdotal here, but from what I've seen AutoCad (as well as Inventor) work pretty well on non-workstation GPUs. Solidworks is also pretty functional without a Quadro or FireGL card.

The real trouble comes along when working in ProE, Creo or Catia, which have terrible support for anything besides workstation GPUs.

On the other hand, most benchmarking is done with ridiculously high-poly models and absurd numbers of constraints. Even in ProE, you'll probably get reasonable performance until you hit the million triangle point.

 

I agree with jergling. I haven't had any issues with Autodesk applications or Matlab with standard graphics cards and standard drivers from AMD and Nvidia.

Fully utilizing the graphics card is a challenge for the developers of these applications. Users running into trouble getting OpenCL working on these systems may have simply missed the memo that OpenCL isn't a current feature of any of these applications.

 

That program failed my driver half way and then refused to respond when theres 2 sec left, now im hesitating if ill do that again