snow leopard's opencl

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mihai
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snow leopard's opencl

Post by mihai » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:32 am

will not utilize my mbp 2,2 mobile radeon 1600. this was something i was looking forward to but now my dream is shattered.
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Re: snow leopard's opencl

Post by 8O » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:33 am

Interesting, I missed that... will it support my MBP's GeForce 8600M GT?
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mihai
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Re: snow leopard's opencl

Post by mihai » Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:51 pm

yes, it supports everything starting with 2,3 which is why i'm unhappy. that was one of three reasons for me to upgrade so now i'm down to two.

for more details > http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
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Jersey Garcia
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Re: snow leopard's opencl

Post by Jersey Garcia » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:02 pm

so what does that mean? it'll still work right, just won't have the tricked out graphics capabilities?
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Re: snow leopard's opencl

Post by 8O » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:27 pm

Jersey Garcia wrote:so what does that mean? it'll still work right, just won't have the tricked out graphics capabilities?
Yes, OpenCL is listed under feature-specific requirements, so as long as you have an Intel-based Mac, you can install 10.6, but you'll only get the OpenCL benefit with one of the graphics cards listed in mihai's link above. If I understand it correctly, OpenCL will help everything run faster, by using the graphics processor resources, rather than improving the graphics capabilities themselves.
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Re: snow leopard's opencl

Post by mihai » Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:09 pm

it'll use the gpu for general system processing as opposed to strictly graphic processing. i was excited to be able to do a bit more with live but now...

*textual frowny face*
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Re: snow leopard's opencl

Post by v76 » Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:22 pm

Welcome to the great world of Apple! They produce stuff for a month, then drop it and make the next one features-friendly.

I was so pissed when they introduced the Core 2 Duo a week and a half after I bought my 2200$ CD MBP. :x :x
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Re: snow leopard's opencl

Post by 8O » Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:38 pm

v76 wrote:Welcome to the great world of Apple! They produce stuff for a month, then drop it and make the next one features-friendly.

I was so pissed when they introduced the Core 2 Duo a week and a half after I bought my 2200$ CD MBP. :x :x
I know what you mean, same thing happened just after I bought my MacTini...
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Re: snow leopard's opencl

Post by v76 » Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:48 pm

haha. Yea, same with my father-in-law... bought the quad 2.5 ghz G5 tower...4000$ or so... a month after, the shiny new Mac Pro is out!
HATE! :x :x :x :x :x

That video pretty much sums up Apple! :mrgreen:
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Re: snow leopard's opencl

Post by mihai » Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:52 pm

it should be more appropriate to include support any gpu that was featured on c2d+ macs and post considering the x64 concept.
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