Ask Slashdot: GPU of Choice For OpenCL On Linux?

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 25, 2015 @03:38AM from the discriminating-tastes dept.

Bram Stolk writes So, I am running GNU/Linux on a modern Haswell CPU, with an old Radeon HD5xxx from 2009. I'm pretty happy with the open source Gallium driver for 3D acceleration. But now I want to do some GPGPU development using OpenCL on this box, and the old GPU will no longer cut it. What do my fellow technophiles from Slashdot recommend as a replacement GPU? Go NVIDIA, go AMD, or just use the integrated Intel GPU instead? Bonus points for open sourced solutions. Performance not really important, but OpenCL driver maturity is.

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You're not going very far with nVidia by Anonymous Coward · 2015-01-25 03:51 · Score: 4, Interesting

They're too busy with CUDA to give two shits about decent OpenCL performance.
That's why the HD Radeon series was the mining GPU of choice for Bitcoin.