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Dears at AMD,

From my own private perspective (hacker/developer !gamer) nvidia is providing a comprehensive toolkit and documentation for developing on top of the GPU platform (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpucomputing.html)

Do you have the same?



ATI Stream SDK


AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) SDK (formerly ATI Stream)

http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/Pages/default.aspx


You're right that AMD has traditionally been a little behind NVIDIA on the software side. Manju Hedge (of PhysX fame) is now leading a team at AMD that focuses exclusively on making the GPU computing as easy to use and as painless as possible, so hopefully things should improve over the next few months.


I was not stating any opinions, rather asking an honest question.

I was glad to discover that APP SDK, and will look at it quite soon, though the device in question is not yet listed in the supported devices page http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/pages/DriverCompatibi.... I find the GPU platform as an interesting field for R&D activity and perhaps, one day, I can even build a startup which takes advantage of this platform. Time will tell


At the risk of stating the obvious, openCL seems to be their answer:

http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/stream-technolog...

I'm not sure if you're saying those efforts aren't good enough (I wouldn't know). While I am sure nvidia produces more work effort in cuda, it seems that AMD is trying to treat OpenCL as a broad standard. In that way you expect a fair amount of information from Apple regarding ObjC for example, but are probably OK with AMD not covering C++ that specifically.


AMD just began supporting OdenCL, but (of course; it's an NVIDIA thing) don't support CUDU.




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