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AMD's OpenCL Allows GPU Code To Run On X86 CPUs

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-something-like dept.

eldavojohn writes "Two blog posts from AMD are causing a stir in the GPU community. AMD has created and released the industry's first OpenCL which allows developers to code against AMD's graphics API (normally only used for their GPUs) and run it on any x86 CPU. Now, as a developer, you can divide the workload between the two as you see fit instead of having to commit to either GPU or CPU. Ars has more details."

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  1. Nice by clarkn0va · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Good on them. Now how about an API that allows me to run GPU code on the GPU? The day I can play 1080p mkvs from a netbook on AMD/ATI hardware is the day I'll quit buying nvidia.

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  2. Intel counters with CPU+GPU on a chip by fibrewire · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ironically Intel announced that they are going to stop outsourcing their GPU's in Atom processors and include the gpu + cpu in one package, yet nobody knows what happened to the dual core Atom N270...