LW3D, Octane 3 and OpenCL?

[OlaHaldor]

Does Octane 3 for LW work with OpenCL yet? My GTX 1080 is just collecting dust until it either can be used with OpenCL or the CUDA8 update comes soon.
If it does support OpenCL, I will be upgrading to Octane 3 quickly.

[juanjgon]

The 1080 GPU will be supported using CUDA as soon as possible. The CUDA 8 compiler needed to build the applications for this GPU has been just released as release candidate few days ago.

-Juanjo

[3dreamstudios]

Any new news on Cuda 8 Octane 3 and 1080 GPU's? Just curious. Looking to buy GPU when it comes down in price to MSRP.

[juanjgon]

Nope, not yet.

-Juanjo

[MichaelT]

could be good if you posted a beta, so those of us with gtx 1080 can start using octane again. Besides, are you sidestepping interoperability? I can understand why, but it would be a good idea to have a fallback, to support all types of GPUs with cuda support. It is in the SDK for a reason after all It doesn't have to be fast, just working.

[juanjgon]

There isn't a CUDA 8 Octane version yet. I'll update the plugin to support it as soon as we have the first builds

-Juanjo

[3dreamstudios]

1080's are $699 MSRP price now on Amazon. Any news on when Octane and plugin will see this new tech?

Nvidia really dropped the ball if you guys didn't get what you needed 4 months ago!

[juanjgon]

The build released today should work in the new Pascal GPUs. It is not optimized yet for this architecture, but at least it works.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[3dreamstudios]

The build released today should work in the new Pascal GPUs. It is not optimized yet for this architecture, but at least it works.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

I'm guessing plugin will come within a few weeks or so?

[juanjgon]

I'm guessing plugin will come within a few weeks or so?

I'm talking about the plugin build released today (3.03.2.0) ... It is ready, you can test it with the new Pascal GPUs if you want

-Juanjo