AMD Patches Cycles for OpenCL

Bart · March 24, 2015

Here’s big news: AMD has contributed patches to Cycles to make it work properly on their videocards!

This patch contains work to split the OpenCL mega-kernel into separate kernels to obtain better GPU utilization and therefore performance.
A description of the optimizations included in this patch is located here.

After many months of work, @AMD submitted a patch for Cycles to make it work with #OpenCL kernels. Milestone! https://t.co/2ckBfxCCzh #b3d
— Ton Roosendaal (inactive)? (@tonroosendaal) March 24, 2015

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

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