On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 13:58:38 +0100 Robert Bridge <[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you and the others for the responses. I figure that the ROCm driver is the only opensource solution that provides OpenCL functionality. But it's fiddly to install and might not work under Debian at all. The only other options are amdgpu (opensource but OpenCL not working) or amdgpu-pro (proprietary but OpenCL works). > ROCm drivers should work, AIUI, if your GPU and CPU combo is > supported. > > It may not be packaged for your distro though No it is not. > I suspect the killer here is going to be the "work out the box without > fiddling" requirement. Currently none of the FLOSS openCL systems are > that polished, sadly. So not much has changed in the mean time. ROCm seems like it has potential, but it's not quite there yet. > That said, darktable works just fine without openCL, it just might be > slightly slower for some operations as it loads out the CPU instead. So a faster graphic adapter without OpenCL makes a difference compared to CPU only? Is that correct? I was under the assumption that darktable uses the CPU for everything if OpenCL is not available. That would be great news. Marco ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
