RyanSmithAT: The Samsung Exynos deal is (was) supposed to be a major achievement for both Samsung and AMD.

But they will use it to direct people to wher…

RyanSmithAT: Samsung does not use social media for direct announcements.

If it's such an important show, it literal…

RyanSmithAT: RT I'm endorsing Rob's endorsement, we need to stop having CES so early in the year.

RyanSmithAT: That comment is based on actual retail (market) prices, not MSRPs.

RyanSmithAT: So what you're saying is that the photos aren't a security risk because of the intel inside?.

IanCutress: Check the last year and a half of financial calls from AMD and Intel and others.

I swear I purchased most of these before I had a smartph…

IanCutress: Finally opening boxes from the house move three years ago.

Overall it is good to see Intel continuosly upgrading their driver and tool support for GPU computing APIs. Nvidia provides mature profiling tools for CUDA applications but their OpenCL tooling has been lackluster at best and Nvidia drivers remain at OpenCL 1.1.

For example, I have a notebook with HD 4000 but was not able to enable some metrics because my notebook's BIOS does not have this option.ĪMD has provided similar tools (such as CodeXL), as well as OpenCL 1.2 drivers for their GPUs for quite a while.

This may be problematic for some developers.

According to an Intel forum post, for full GPU functionality VTune does require that the BIOS in the developer's machine support an option to collect performance metrics on the Intel GPU. This will enable programmers to better understand the performance characteristics of their code on Intel GPUs, and thus will allow them to optimize their code better. Now it is possible to collect metrics such as utilization of the Execution Unit (EU) array and usage of on-chip local memory and cache of Intel HD graphics from within VTune. Intel also supports OpenCL 1.2 on Xeon Phi.Īlso of note, Intel has also recently updated their VTune Amplifier 2013 tool to add support for collecting GPU performance metrics in OpenCL applications running on Intel GPUs. The full release notes for the SDK release can be found here. Intel has also released an updated SDK along with the driver. The driver also implements better integration with both Direct3D and OpenGL. Intel has released an updated OpenCL driver for their 3rd Generation Core (Ivy Bridge) and 4th Generation Core (which we can safely call as Haswell) products that brings OpenCL 1.2 support on both the CPU and the GPU, moving a step up from OpenCL 1.1 in previous releases.

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