Radeon on PC?
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I'm a bit confused with all the versions and development going on, so I just ask: With an Octane MacOS version around, supporting AMD cards, is Octane (liek the 2020 version I have a license for) on PC also being developed to support modern AMDs .. like the new RDNA2 cards, that were just released these days? Or will this be an Nvidia only thing forever?
Hi,
please consider that the AMD support in Mac Os has been released thanks to the great work made by Apple with their Metal driver.
It would be very welcome if AMD would like to do the same for Windows and Linux, but it does not depend from Otoy effort, unfortunately
ciao Beppe
please consider that the AMD support in Mac Os has been released thanks to the great work made by Apple with their Metal driver.
It would be very welcome if AMD would like to do the same for Windows and Linux, but it does not depend from Otoy effort, unfortunately
ciao Beppe
Arf i was going to ask the exact same question. the AMD RX 6800 XT is exactly what i was expecting from the new nvidia generation, 16GB of Vram with good overall perf around 650$.
with the AMD support on Mac OS , i was expecting otoy to also support AMD GPU on PC. I guess it's not that easy and that we are still tie to nvidia hardware for the coming years.
Hope to see some competition in the coming years, because the fact that nvidia has remove all nvlink slot from their card except the 3090 at 1500$ is just pure rip off imo.
with the AMD support on Mac OS , i was expecting otoy to also support AMD GPU on PC. I guess it's not that easy and that we are still tie to nvidia hardware for the coming years.
Hope to see some competition in the coming years, because the fact that nvidia has remove all nvlink slot from their card except the 3090 at 1500$ is just pure rip off imo.
Hm, what's metal compared to the PC world? DirectX12? CUDA? Vulkan? What does it do, that the PC side can't? What about OpenCL?bepeg4d wrote:Hi,
please consider that the AMD support in Mac Os has been released thanks to the great work made by Apple with their Metal driver.
It would be very welcome if AMD would like to do the same for Windows and Linux, but it does not depend from Otoy effort, unfortunately
ciao Beppe
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The closest API on Windows to Metal is CUDA. As Beppe said, Apple has done a ton of work getting their Metal drivers to the same point that the Nvidia CUDA drivers are. In fact, on Windows and Linux, there is already a fully feature complete version of Octane that would run on AMD cards using the Vulkan API, but the AMD drivers are unstable and do not fully support the Vulkan API yet. So OTOY has already done the work needed, AMD just needs to step up to the bat and make their drivers work. https://twitter.com/OTOY/status/1321494 ... 04993?s=20
CUDA
i7-7820X 96GB + 1080Ti
i7-8650U 16GB + 1060M
Metal
Mac mini i7-8700B 32GB + Radeon VII eGPU
i7-7820X 96GB + 1080Ti
i7-8650U 16GB + 1060M
Metal
Mac mini i7-8700B 32GB + Radeon VII eGPU