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for nVidia Octane comunity is too small to care too much..however they made some nice tools, polished their CUDA for programers/developers to pick up and go - it was their investment & it worked out for them, as CUDA is videlly adopted..

now a lot of talks about support of AMD cards, however they do run hot,..noisy & so.. - the prise will always follow the demand..- as miners jumped into GPU computing, some models from red team were jumping in price quite a lot..


for some reason I'm quite skeptic 'bout this jump, but..who knows maybe it will be good thing for OTOY & comunity.

It's interesting me, too .... especially in the light of NVidia releasing crappier CUDA performance on the cheaper game cards with every release.... They do Support Open CL, but not really willingly and from what I read, their Open CL support isn't exactly good .. as they want to push their own CUDA rather. So using an AMD can mean better Open CL speeds. But if then again Open CL implementation in Octane is different or worse, speed might not improve ... many factors in play here

The new 300 series of AMD so far sounds interesting ... less power use and apparently quite perfromant in the game tests I saw, I wonder what that means for Open CL.

voon wrote:.... especially in the light of NVidia releasing crappier CUDA performance on the cheaper game cards with every release....

Exactly.

I understand why companies deliberately holds back on power and tech and try to squeeze every penny out of their customers.
I understand WHY I'm getting butt f*****, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

This is news to me. How soon will this be happening? I'm pricing a system right now for purchase before June 1. Is this something I should watch and wait for?

jscottsmith wrote:This is news to me. How soon will this be happening? I'm pricing a system right now for purchase before June 1. Is this something I should watch and wait for?

I believe I read somewhere that Octane 2 customers gets access to an alpha release around June. Final version is perhaps late 2015? Guesswork though....

of course AMD is faster for OpenCL but what we don't know(yet) is how fast OpenCL will be for rendering comparing to CUDA

enigmasi wrote:of course AMD is faster for OpenCL but what we don't know(yet) is how fast OpenCL will be for rendering comparing to CUDA

Exactly, and also whether every feature / code hack that works in CUDA will work in OpenCL. I wouldn't be surprised to see an initial Octane release that had a limited feature set for OpenCL, and I'm sure people would love that. /s

I'm very curious about this also.

enigmasi wrote:of course AMD is faster for OpenCL

Why? For all we know, NVIDIA is not stupid and may codevelop OpenCL alongside CUDA, just not release a fast variant of it.

bump, any news on performance?