From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Sep 2 10:45:13 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E47A7FEB8A6 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2018 10:45:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 83D7E73CD0 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2018 10:45:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1535885113; x=1538477113; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=C7LFLkWZ61F8wJWaR3cF7J3z+3mB9XJiBljclLpWg7M=; b=Fgp8SFhJh2vw2cB4j+vB+WbYNQJquSaPiBpneK9gtD3eVJ1wnbfGsmNRzUWrtSvSGhDDNhrEBEElbhqbxi0VrrT2QPMknzK0fnN/xRwv0fxD0vO7PPLNNFn1SVI1hWs2VutB1DpeL31CMMQHghYl8JA31/PRwmdehxcDwCZtJV4= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xOTkwMDAwMDE0ZWViYzkuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r2.h.in.socketlabs.com (r2.h.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.180.12]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sun, 2 Sep 2018 06:45:05 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r2.h.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sun, 2 Sep 2018 06:45:04 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.91 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1fwPsN-000ADo-Cp; Sun, 02 Sep 2018 10:45:03 +0000 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 11:45:02 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: CeDeROM Cc: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: FreeBSD OpenCL/CUDA nVidia Message-Id: <20180902114502.e59ab940d98cd43cd6f1ca11@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2018 10:45:13 -0000 On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 23:07:46 +0200 CeDeROM wrote: > What is the current AMD/ATI support for Open-Source? Do they provide > full GPU specification as opposed to nVidia? AMD/ATI opened up their interfaces and some core source code about a decade ago they still produce a closed source driver of their own but they support the open source Linux video driver apparently enthusiastically (according to one report it is now faster than the closed source one). Both Intel and AMD/ATI provide open source OpenCL stacks It really is nVidia that is the odd one out - but they do hold the high end of the hardware, the cards gamers and cryptocurrency miners lust after are all nVidia. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith