Re: [darktable-user] Does OpenCL require the AMDGPU-PRO driver? Yes, but does not require installation, just some libs

2017-03-25 Thread Kelvie Wong
There is a phoronix article that benchmarks various cards using darktable: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=darktable-opencl-gpu&num=4 I ended up getting a RX 480 4GB, as it seems like the best bang for the buck On Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 16:53 Andrew Martin wrote: > Is there a g

Re: [darktable-user] Does OpenCL require the AMDGPU-PRO driver? Yes, but does not require installation, just some libs

2017-03-25 Thread Andrew Martin
Is there a good guide for picking hardware optimized for Darktable (CPU and GPU)? Is Nvidia or AMD a lot better than the other for the parts of OpenCL that Darktable utilizes? Andrew On Mar 25, 2017 6:43 PM, "Riley Brandt" wrote: > That is very interesting! Thanks for letting us know. > > I swi

Re: [darktable-user] Does OpenCL require the AMDGPU-PRO driver? Yes, but does not require installation, just some libs

2017-03-25 Thread Riley Brandt
That is very interesting! Thanks for letting us know. I switched to an AMD 470 recently because I couldn't use the NVIDIA proprietary drivers for several days after an update in Fedora. It turned out to be a problem with SE Linux. ROCm should also add OpenCL support, but it is just a developer pr

Re: [darktable-user] Does OpenCL require the AMDGPU-PRO driver? Yes, but does not require installation, just some libs

2017-03-25 Thread Mark Heieis
Hi, Using the info in this link https://community.amd.com/message/2788134, It appears that I've been able to get OpenCL working on my system, Fedora 25 (4.9.14-200.fc25.x86_64 fully updated) using an RX480 gpu without installing the amdgpu-pro driver. You will