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    Anyone here familiar with ATI's OpenCL SDK ?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Laeadern, Aug 10, 2010.

  1. Laeadern

    Laeadern Notebook Consultant

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    I was considering downloading it as support for OpenCL would be nice and my video card supports the feature. Anyone have any advice/suggestions as I don't want to screw anything up? Also I hope this is the right board for the topic...as I'm not necessarily talking about gaming but software in general.
     
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    I've been developing some small OpenCL programs with the Stream SDK for a few months now. There's nothing you need to worry about it wrecking when you install it. You should just choose not to install the SDK samples, Stream Kernel Analyzer or Stream Profiler (basically, just install the base SDK) since I assume you're not doing development.
     
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    Laeadern, Aug 10, 2010
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    Yes, unfortunately you need to download the entire SDK and just not install those programs. But do you really need OpenCL? There are not many programs out right now that take advantage of it.
     
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    Do I really need it...probably not. But since there isn't much risk involved why not....it's not a huge download really.
     
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    Well I installed the OpenCL SDK and all went well. On a slightly different note I was able to overclock my 4650 from 550/667 to 640/750 stable with RivaTuner 2.24.
     
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    Why exactly did you want the OpenCL SDK? Are you developing software? If not, it doesn't actually do anything at all for you. You know that, right?
     
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    Does the OP know that 'SDK' means?
     
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    There is really no harm in installing the OpenCL Stream drivers as far as I can tell. I'm not a developer and know what it means btw.
     
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    Is there a consumer level non Developer download for OpenCL as you guys seems to be expressing concern? I've been at The Khronos Group website and can't really see anything.
     
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    There is no "consumer" level driver, everything is packed in the SDK.

    There is no actual concern, just that since you're not developing, you don't really need the SDK and because there aren't really any programs out now that use OpenCL, the only real reason to install it is for development.

    If you want though, you can leave it, it won't hurt anything.
     
    notyou, Aug 11, 2010
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