Blender 2.78 Is Adding Pascal Support, Fixes Maxwell Performance Issues

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Blender 2.78 Is Adding Pascal Support, Fixes Maxwell Performance Issues

Version 2.78 of the Blender open-source modeling software is coming soon and it adds NVIDIA Pascal support on top of fixing some Maxwell performance issues...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Blender-2.78-NVIDIA

[nuetzel]

Anyone working on the framebuffer number bug?
'User Preferences...' -> 'Window Draw Method: Automatic'
Switching to:
'Window Draw Method: Tripple Buffer'
fix it.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97059

When will they work on better OpenCL (AMD) support?

[fresco]

Hi, I think the forecast is great for AMD and Blender together, especially if you look at this report

https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/siggraph-2016-report/

Look at Monday 25, it seems AMD will finance another developer for 1 year to "finish the OpenCL split kernel"

[nuetzel]

Thank you very much for the pointer.
Sounds GREAT!

[torsionbar28]

That's fantastic news, bravo AMD!!!

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Little slow on the uptake. This information has been out in the wild for nearly 1 week. And yes AMD is fixing their OpenCL stack, once again. They will also integrate their Rendering Engine into Blender and enable the OpenCL 1.2 for the FX CPUs, something that is not currently available and which defeats a major selling point of OpenCL.