PS4 Blowout: GPGPU, DirectX 11; Sony London to “Set the Bar for the Industry”, Global Illumination, Instant Radiosity, More

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Soleron said:

superchunk said:

Soleron said:

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1) you said the only GPGPU commercial product was in a video decoder. I said... its in WiiU too.

2) I don't remember the architecture/model name, just know it is related to the original plans for 2013 APUs.

Also, are current A10 APUs GPGPU tech inside? I thought it was but your posts make me question this.

 

EDIT: btw, AMD uses OpenCL (a GPGPU library) with its APU Fusion designs. Found this all over AMDs site.

Edit2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5847/answered-by-the-experts-heterogeneous-and-gpu-compute-with-amds-manju-hegde

1) Commercial software products. As in, something that takes advantage of that GPGPU functionality. Hardware support means nothing without actual uses. For hardware, yes every PC graphics card since 2007 and all three next game consoles support it. However I expect exactly zero games will use it.

I'm pretty sure Matlab has a toolbox that utilises the GPU as well as other scientific based software, especially for molecular modelling and bioinformatics. I also remember reading that some anti-virus software had started making use of the GPU to speed things up.