Hi Martin,
unfortunately we can’t give out any specific information at the moment.
You will have to wait until the first devices ship with OpenCL support.
Marco
Thanks! There is a factsheet ( https://www.imgtec.com/factsheets/powervr/POWERVR_SGX_Series5_IP_Core_Family.pdf ) which seems to claim that all SGX Series 5 GPUs support OpenCL 1.1. Is this the case? Then it should be only a question of the drivers whether the GPU's support for OpenCL is exposed, right?
Martin Kraus2010-11-09 12:49:53
Hi Martin,
please have a look at Gordon’s post:
https://www.imgtec.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=194&PID=2609#2609
Not sure if you guys have seen this:
http://www.hotchips.org/archives/hc21/1_sun/HC21.23.2.OpenCLTutorial-Epub/HC21.23.270.Pulli-OpenCL-in-Handheld-Devices.pdf
This is a presentation that a Nokia engineer gave at the Hot Chips 21 symposium. It show a performance comparison of an image processing kernel running on the GPU (PowerVR SGX530), CPU (Arm Cortex A8), and a combination of both on an OMAP 3430.
It also mentions the potential of workload management on future chips:
"OpenCL can allocate workload on multiple processors...for example in OMAP 4430 there are 2 X Arm Cortex A9, ISP, GPU, DSP"
Now, whether or not OpenCL drivers will be available for ALL of the OMAP 4 computational resources is another question...but clearly Nokia got a driver for the CPU and GPU from SOMEONE to try this experiment. And this is from August 23rd, 2009.
ksudeadeye2010-12-03 21:58:32
Of course drivers exists… for device engineers only. Perhaps Nokia was given permission to try an in-house driver, or maybe Nokia whipped up something quick to try. The API is probably still in beta and not ready for public release. Who knows.
