Blender 2.79 Is Bringing Performance Improvements, Better OpenCL

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Blender 2.79 Is Bringing Performance Improvements, Better OpenCL

Blender 2.79 is under development and it sounds like this release should be quite exciting for those into performance improvements or better OpenCL support...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Blender-2.79-Improvements

[Azpegath]

Wow, that's truly a quality release! Stability and performance is key for feeling professional!

[cl333r]

Wow, that's truly a quality release! Stability and performance is key for feeling professional!

It's a quality release that doesn't exist.

[numasan]

It's a quality release that doesn't exist.

Ignoring stupid semantics, a build does exist for testing and QA:

https://www.builder.blender.org/download/

[ldo17]

Blender is like the Rodney Dangerfield of CG software: it don’t get no respect.

But that is changing...

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Ignoring stupid semantics, a build does exist for testing and QA:
https://www.builder.blender.org/download/

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm not seeing all those changes in the Linux build. I don't have Windows to test and verify.

And it is titles like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14097948

Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA (blender.org)

I wish were true but is just plain wrong. Half the features in CUDA are still missing in OpenCL.