Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:05 am
Joined: 14 Jan 2013
Posts: 2
Hi!
How to enable OpenCL? Only CUDA is visible.
Blender 2.65a
Windows 7 64-bit
Core i7 3960X
GTX580
On another computer with AMD graphic cards (AMD/ATI 5450, AMD/ATI 6570) I can't even set GPU rendering.
GPU Caps Viewer shows on every platform that OpenCL is available.
Regards!
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:01 pm
Joined: 05 Aug 2003
Posts: 3489
Not sure what your end goal is here, but CUDA is the better supported solution, both on nVidia cards and in Blender in general.
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:34 pm
Joined: 14 Jan 2013
Posts: 2
My end goal is to use OpenCL:) CUDA is not available on AMD. I noticed that OpenCL is available on older releases including 2.63, 2.63a, 2.64, 2.64a, but it's not supported on 2.65 and 2.65a.
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:36 pm
Joined: 25 Jan 2013
Posts: 6
OpenCL
On hold
by the way suggesting Cuda over OpenCL it's just a downgrading, OpenCL is far more powerful than Cuda that is simply a framework for Nvidia GPUs; the real difference is that OpenCL requires more dedication and resources than Cuda to give/code an equivalent program, but in practice and in production OpenCL is always better.
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 7:11 pm
Joined: 21 Apr 2010
Posts: 1169
The recommendation of CUDA over OpenCL is based on which was currently better -supported- by Blender not which was more powerful in its potential capabilities.
How to enable OpenCL?