Re: [Bf-committers] Is Cycles going to support OpenCL 1.0 ?

2011-12-08 Thread Damir Prebeg
Yep, my Mobility Radeon HD 4550 is released last year and it was already obsolete. Crap. On 7 December 2011 20:04, Brecht Van Lommel brechtvanlom...@pandora.be wrote: Hi, We probably won't support 1.0. It's a matter of priorities, if we design our code such that it works on older hardware, it

Re: [Bf-committers] Is Cycles going to support OpenCL 1.0 ?

2011-12-08 Thread Αντώνης Ρυακιωτάκης
Hi. As far as I know the 5 series from ATI was the first to fully support OpenCL (and I think it was 1.0, not 1.1) in any case. In any case maybe if brecht has the time to write which 1.1 features are necessary for which purpose maybe people can be more understanding.

[Bf-committers] Is Cycles going to support OpenCL 1.0 ?

2011-12-07 Thread Marko Radojcic
Hi! I've been playing with Cycles these days, but I only have HD 4850 Radeon that supports OpenCL 1.0, not 1.1, so I cannot test the full potential of GPU rendering in cycles for ati... Is OpenCL 1.1 necessary ? If so, it eliminates all pre- HD 5xxx ATI GPUs which is a shame because many of

Re: [Bf-committers] Is Cycles going to support OpenCL 1.0 ?

2011-12-07 Thread Brecht Van Lommel
Hi, We probably won't support 1.0. It's a matter of priorities, if we design our code such that it works on older hardware, it also makes it more complex and harder to extend. The more features we add the more difficult it's going to be to support older GPU's, and we're only just getting