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While enjoying the pictures and tests Sebastian ran on the new AMD Radeon VII, was there a game that we missed that is near and dear to your heart? ...
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Tag: OpenCL
AMD Radeon VII Review: Supercharged Vega
After a month-long wait following its announcement during the AMD keynote at CES, the Radeon VII is finally here. By now you probably know that this is the world’s first…
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The Khronos Group at SIGGRAPH 2018
SIGGRAPH 2018 is a huge computer graphics expo that occurs in a seemingly random host city around North America. (Asia has a sister event, called SIGGRAPH Asia, which…
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WWDC 18: OpenGL & OpenCL Are Deprecated on Mac & iOS
Apple has just announced that OpenGL and OpenCL are deprecated for all Apple platforms, starting with macOS 10.14 and iOS 12. The APIs are still available on these operating...
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The Khronos Group Releases SYCL 1.2.1
The specification for SYCL 1.2.1, which is based on OpenCL 1.2, has been finalized and released on the Khronos website. The describe it as a major update over the previous standard, SYCL…
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Podcast #451 – New Surface Pro, Analog Keyboards, Water Cooled PSUs and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #451 - 05/25/17 Join us for talk about the wew Surface Pro, analog keyboards, water cooled PSUs and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still...
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Follow-up: Neil Trevett and Tom Olson from Khronos Group Discuss OpenCL and Vulkan Roadmap
Last week, we reported that OpenCL’s roadmap would be merging into Vulkan, and OpenCL would, starting at some unspecified time in the future, be based “on...
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Podcast #450 – AMD Ryzen, AMD EPYC, AMD Threadripper, AMD Vega, and more non AMD news!
PC Perspective Podcast #450 - 05/18/17 Join us for AMD Announcments, Core i9 leaks, OpenCL updates, and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access it directly...
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Breaking: OpenCL Merging Roadmap into Vulkan
Update (May 18 @ 4pm EDT): A few comments across the internet believes that the statements from The Khronos Group were inaccurately worded, so I…
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Khronos Group Published Finalized OpenCL 2.2 & SPIR-V 1.2
Aligning with the start of the International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) 2017 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Khronos Group has published the finalized specification for OpenCL 2.2 and SPIR-V 1.2. The…
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NVIDIA Releases GeForce 378.66 Drivers with New Features
While the headline of the GeForce 378.66 graphics driver release is support for For Honor, Halo Wars 2, and Sniper Elite 4, NVIDIA has snuck something major into the 378...
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AMD Releases App SDK 3.0 with OpenCL 2.0
Apart from manufacturers with a heavy first-party focus, such as Apple and Nintendo, hardware is useless without developer support. In this case, AMD has updated their App SDK...
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Khronos Group at SIGGRAPH 2015
When the Khronos Group announced Vulkan at GDC, they mentioned that the API is coming this year, and that this date is intended to under promise and over deliver....
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The DirectX 12 Multiadapter Concept Isn’t Really New…
Windows 10 is about to launch and, with it, DirectX 12. Apart from the massive increase in draw calls, Explicit Multiadapter, both Linked and Unlinked,...
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GDC 15: What Is Vulkan (glNext), SPIR-V, and OpenCL 2.1?
The Khronos Group has made three announcements today: Vulkan (their competitor to DirectX 12), OpenCL 2.1, and SPIR-V. Because there is actually significant overlap, we...
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Using the embedded HD7850 to spot the next generation of gamers in the womb
The new bk3000 Ultrasound System from Analogic will use an embedded HD7850 and OpenCL to triple the quality of the information the ultrasound reveals. This will allow ultrasounds to reveal...
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AMD hits the peak of performance in gaming and productivity
The new cooling on the 290X tends to have it at the top of the gaming charts and with the impending release of two new FirePro HPC cards AMD looks to take…
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GDC 14: EGL 1.5 Specification Released by Khronos
The Khronos Group has also released their ratified specification for EGL 1.5. This API is at the center of data and event management between other Khronos APIs. This version increases security,…
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