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  • Blender 2.75 Released With AMD OpenCL Support, Multi-View/Stereo 3D Pipeline

    Phoronix: Blender 2.75 Released With AMD OpenCL Support, Multi-View/Stereo 3D Pipeline

    The huge release of the open-source Blender v2.75 3D modeling software is now available for all supported platforms...

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  • #2
    Is the OpenCL support generic? As in, can it be used with Intel's Beignet or with POCL as well?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Min1123 View Post
      Is the OpenCL support generic? As in, can it be used with Intel's Beignet or with POCL as well?
      Not sure about beignet, but I didn't see it being used when using clover(opencl for radeon).

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Min1123 View Post
        Is the OpenCL support generic? As in, can it be used with Intel's Beignet or with POCL as well?
        It is generic but due bugs in beignet/pocl (or incomplete implementations) it does not work. It was only tested against AMD and NVidia OpenCL.

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        • #5
          Hmm what version of opencl do they require? Blender wiki says:
          OpenCL OpenCL is supported for GPU rendering with AMD graphics cards. We only support graphics cards with GCN architecture (HD 7xxx and above). Not all HD 7xxx cards are GCN cards though, you can check if your card is here.
          Cycles requires recent AMD drivers to be installed, on all operating systems.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by tuke81 View Post
            Hmm what version of opencl do they require? Blender wiki says:
            [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]
            The baseline for the GCN I believe is OpenCL 1.2.

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            • #7
              If OpenCl is supposed to work with Nvidia aswell, why don't I get an OpenCL option? GTX 670.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by xeekei View Post
                If OpenCl is supposed to work with Nvidia aswell, why don't I get an OpenCL option? GTX 670.
                You need to install cuda/opencl packages.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by xeekei View Post
                  If OpenCl is supposed to work with Nvidia aswell, why don't I get an OpenCL option? GTX 670.

                  Try this:
                  CYCLES_OPENCL_SPLIT_KERNEL_TEST=1 blender

                  It might work... but then again opencl is done for gcn arch so you might better of with cuda.

                  There is updated opencl page for blender cycles:

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                  • #10
                    I wish Kaveri would have GCN 1.2...


                    Code:
                    [grayson@htpc ~]$ lspci | grep Radeon
                    00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 200 Series]
                    [grayson@htpc ~]$ fglrxinfo 
                    display: :0  screen: 0
                    OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
                    OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon(TM) R7 Graphics       
                    OpenGL version string: 4.4.13374 Compatibility Profile Context 15.101.1001
                    
                    [grayson@htpc ~]$ uname -a
                    Linux htpc 3.19.0-21-lowlatency #21~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 14 19:04:42 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
                    [grayson@htpc ~]$ apt-cache policy blender
                    blender:
                      Installed: 2.75-1435752017-0thomas~trusty0
                      Candidate: 2.75-1435752017-0thomas~trusty0
                      Version table:
                     *** 2.75-1435752017-0thomas~trusty0 0
                            500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/thomas-schiex/blender/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
                            100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
                         2.69-4ubuntu2 0
                            500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
                    [grayson@htpc ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name"
                    model name    : AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G
                    model name    : AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G

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