OpenCL Hardware

[racolvin]

From Apple: http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html

OpenCL

* NVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS, Geforce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130.
* ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870


See bolded part - wtf is a GT130? I have a GT120 in my Pro but I've never heard of a GT130....

Anybody care to share a clue with me ? I see the thing listed on the Nvidia website but I haven't seen a Mac with this chip yet http://www.nvidia.com/object/p...eforce_gt_130m_us.html

 

[Kmax82]

Who knows.. it might be a hint of something to come.

 

[Kaido]

Nvidia GT130 = Rebranded 9600GT (G94). Same as your Nvidia GT120 = Rebranded 9500GT (G96). Anything from Nvidia 8000-series and up should work fine with OpenCL (since that's what works with CUDA on the Windows side of things).

 

[racolvin]

Oh I wasn't questioning whether it would work .. just that I have yet to see it in a Mac product It's not as if I can buy one as an upgrade from the Apple store

 

[silverpig]

So uh, my 7900GS is no good?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: silverpig
So uh, my 7900GS is no good?

Based on the specs that Apple has posted, no. I think they're basing it off CUDA-capable cards (hence the 8000-series cards being the lowest listed) and newer. Although, I wouldn't bother buying anything new until Snow Leopard actually comes out and you've tested it. You can run Snow Leopard without OpenCL, it's simply a nice added benefit, that's all.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: racolvin
Oh I wasn't questioning whether it would work .. just that I have yet to see it in a Mac product It's not as if I can buy one as an upgrade from the Apple store

Oh, I was just posting info from my hackintosh wiki...I had the same question about the cards awhile ago and had to look it up - it's not a new card, it's just a 2008 Honda Accord with a 2009 sticker slapped on it

 

[PCTC2]

eVGA just posted a GTX 285 1GB "Mac' edition for a huge price premium, just like Apple's practices... but it sure beats a GT 130.

 

[gar655]

The GT130 is an upgrade option on the 2.93ghz iMac 24"

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: silverpig
So uh, my 7900GS is no good?

Based on the specs that Apple has posted, no. I think they're basing it off CUDA-capable cards (hence the 8000-series cards being the lowest listed) and newer. Although, I wouldn't bother buying anything new until Snow Leopard actually comes out and you've tested it. You can run Snow Leopard without OpenCL, it's simply a nice added benefit, that's all.

Oh I don't mind. If there's some kind of killer app that requires opencl then I'll just upgrade to a 9600 or 9800GT. I don't game much at all on this thing.

 

[slugg]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: silverpig
So uh, my 7900GS is no good?

Based on the specs that Apple has posted, no. I think they're basing it off CUDA-capable cards (hence the 8000-series cards being the lowest listed) and newer. Although, I wouldn't bother buying anything new until Snow Leopard actually comes out and you've tested it. You can run Snow Leopard without OpenCL, it's simply a nice added benefit, that's all.

Oh I don't mind. If there's some kind of killer app that requires opencl then I'll just upgrade to a 9600 or 9800GT. I don't game much at all on this thing.

I work in a computer vision lab. We're drooling over the possibilities with OpenCL and Matlab. If Matlab gains OpenCL support, then there's 1 killer app for some people

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: slugg

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: silverpig
So uh, my 7900GS is no good?

Based on the specs that Apple has posted, no. I think they're basing it off CUDA-capable cards (hence the 8000-series cards being the lowest listed) and newer. Although, I wouldn't bother buying anything new until Snow Leopard actually comes out and you've tested it. You can run Snow Leopard without OpenCL, it's simply a nice added benefit, that's all.

Oh I don't mind. If there's some kind of killer app that requires opencl then I'll just upgrade to a 9600 or 9800GT. I don't game much at all on this thing.

I work in a computer vision lab. We're drooling over the possibilities with OpenCL and Matlab. If Matlab gains OpenCL support, then there's 1 killer app for some people

Shouldn't be too hard to port the CUDA plug-in for MATLAB into OpenCL. I work with MATLAB at my work (Mac-only IT for research). Having a GTX285 1GB and a CUDA-like plug-in for MATLAB would be a godsend for a lot of people with highly parallel calculations that deal with thousands of datasets.