So, people have been asking about where all those donations for a 7970 went, and when was I going to get my 7970.
Good news: HOLY GODDAMNED SHIT IS THAT FAST
Bad news: I think I'm going to play Portal 2 again. And Half Life 2. And a few other things. I'll be back in a few years, I promise.
About time...
OpenCL 1.2 is out too. Running it now, same speed as before it seems like.
http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/downloads/Pages/default.aspxYou do realize all that is is an API specification, right? 2.6 was shipping with very beta 1.2 support. 12.2 ships with something slightly newer than 2.6. Do not install an SDK on top of 12.2 for optimum performance.
12.2 is about the worst driver amd has a released in a while. Running the 8.96 driver that comes in that package (12.4). Works pretty well.
Yeah but Linux doesn't have anything newer yet. Although, I gotta admit, I like how my 2.6-ized kernel is performing. 555 mhash at 925mhz. The troublesome part is, I'm going to have to look for new ways of optimizing this, I've tried a bunch of different things that greatly effected performance (both positively and negatively) on the old compilers for vliw5 and vliw4 and it is doing absolutely nothing on the GCN compiler (which is great, mind you, it means the GCN compiler is actually working right).
I am going to be disappointed if all I get is 555 at 925. I wanted over 600.