My speed increase is substantial with opencl. My guess is that your gpu is on 
the slower side of the performance curve.

On August 14, 2020 11:37:51 AM UTC, Giuseppe Pagnoni <gpagn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Thank you very much Jim, your suggestion was very helpful.  The
>figures without and with opencl are 17.470 and 15.871 sec,
>respectively, corresponding to an opencl-related improvement in
>performance of around 9%.  I have to say I am a bit underwhelmed by
>the benefits of opencl (or by the graphic card in the latest MacBook
>Pro, if that's the culprit).
>
>cheers
>giuseppe
>
>On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 1:24 PM Jim Robinson <jimr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Giuseppe,
>>
>> I don't have a Mac myself so now idea how good the GPU is.  How does
>the 15sec compare with the time taken with opencl disabled
>> (--disable-opencl)?  With a high end GPU with lots of memory factors
>of 10 times faster seem to have been achieved though factors somewhat
>below 10 (e.g. 4 or 5) seem more typical -see the examples in the link
>I originally included.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 11:25, Giuseppe Pagnoni <gpagn...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Jim,
>>>
>>> thanks for the suggestion!  I tried the following:
>>>
>>> CPU + GPU, using OpenCL:
>>>    darktable-cli bench.SRW bench.SRW.xmp test.jpg --core -d perf -d
>opencl
>>>
>>> all the events were successful and the total time was 15 sec.  Is
>that
>>> a reasonable value?
>>>
>>> giuseppe
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 11:13 AM Jim Robinson <jimr...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Giuseppe,
>>> >
>>> > You could try the benchmarks described here.
>>> > https://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas/darktable_bench.html
>>> >
>>> > A bit old now, but should still work.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 10:03, Giuseppe Pagnoni
><gpagn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> I have just installed the latest 3.2.1 version on a 13" MacBook
>Pro
>>> >> (latest model) with an Intel Iris Plus Graphics 1536 GPU.  I
>don't
>>> >> really see much of an increase in speed when I activate the
>OpenCL
>>> >> support.  Is this the way it is supposed to be? Could you suggest
>a
>>> >> way to test it more rigorously?
>>> >>
>>> >> thank you in advance for any comments
>>> >>
>>> >> giuseppe
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Giuseppe Pagnoni
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>>> Sezione Fisiologia e Neuroscienze
>>> Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia
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>Sezione Fisiologia e Neuroscienze
>Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia
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