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AMD brings Vista into Stream SDK

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AMD brings Vista into Stream SDK
By The Inquirer
Sep 12, 2008 | 4 Comments
Tags: AMD | brings | Vista | into | Stream | SDK

Complete with HD 4800 Radeon support

AMD HAS released a new version of its Stream Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing developers to write general-purpose apps, which will now be able to run on Radeon and ATI Catalyst graphics processors.

ATI says firms are realising that significant performance gains are to be had for certain types of applications on a GPU's parallel processing architecture.

SDK 1.2 gives developers some fairly important new features to play with.

As well as providing broader support for key software and hardware standards which coders rely on, the SDK 1.2 also purportedly supports Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) as well as DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 interoperability. AMD has made it clear it aims for eventual "balanced adoption and support" of both DirectX 11 and OpenCL application programming interfaces, planned as "a series of upgrades" within the next 18 months.

Supporting both ATI’s Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870 graphics processors across multiple operating systems, as well as ATI Catalyst 8.8 Display Driver, the SDK 1.2 also comes with a new unified user’s guide, improved sample browser format and documents and performance enhancements to Brook+.

AMD reckons Stream Computing is going to provide the ability to process very, very large amounts of information in much less time than traditional methods, precisely because it takes advantage of the GPU’s parallel processing power.

An AMD spokesman noted that apps created on open Stream SDK could “take advantage of the massive floating point compute capabilities of AMD GPUs to run at dramatically high levels of speed and energy efficiency”.

Download the new SDK in Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux here.

 

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Splash
Sep 12, 2008 11:30 AM
I am no expert right but does this mean it could spped up Vista performance
Or more likely speed up large data processing like Photoshop & encoding?
SceptreCore
Sep 12, 2008 3:11 PM
See, theyre following nVidia's lead. GPGPU is taking hold!

Joy and happiness to the masses!
Cummings
Sep 12, 2008 3:36 PM
Owww wonder how it will match up to cuda.

My lab recently bought one of Dell's gaming rigs to run cuda on. Can't remember the specs exactly, but it was a quad core with dual 9800GT's. To think it will never touch a game.
osama_bin_athlon
Sep 15, 2008 9:35 AM
I wonder if a 3870X2 will work with it?
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