Re: [darktable-devel] OpenCL and CPU use

2014-03-27 Thread jerome
Hi > Modern GPUs are ways faster than CPUs usally. Only nvidia cards/drivers have a > problem on profiled denoise as discussed on IRC yesterday. In general nvidia > cards seem to have a bad OpenCL performance if you look at [1]. And still my > low budget passive cooled GT 640 outperforms my i7-260

Re: [darktable-devel] OpenCL and CPU use

2014-03-27 Thread jerome
> If you have two GPUs with the same speed, it makes a lot of sense to set > parallel_export to 2. However, in most cases users have only one GPU > that is often much faster than the CPU. Or few people have two GPUs with > a big performance difference. In these cases you only profit from > multipl

Re: [darktable-devel] OpenCL and CPU use

2014-03-27 Thread johannes hanika
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Ulrich Pegelow wrote: > Am 26.03.2014 22:33, schrieb Christian Kanzian: > > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2014 schrieb jerome: > > > >> So is this normal ? > >> I mean, core use and the fact I need export only one at time ? > >> > >> Sorry for long story but it help to un

Re: [darktable-devel] OpenCL and CPU use

2014-03-26 Thread Ulrich Pegelow
Am 26.03.2014 22:33, schrieb Christian Kanzian: > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2014 schrieb jerome: > >> So is this normal ? >> I mean, core use and the fact I need export only one at time ? >> >> Sorry for long story but it help to understand how and why. >> >> And sorry for my bad english ;) >> >> Thank

Re: [darktable-devel] OpenCL and CPU use

2014-03-26 Thread Christian Kanzian
Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2014 schrieb jerome: > So is this normal ? > I mean, core use and the fact I need export only one at time ? > > Sorry for long story but it help to understand how and why. > > And sorry for my bad english ;) > > Thanks to all Within OpenCL the GPU does the parallel thing

[darktable-devel] OpenCL and CPU use

2014-03-26 Thread jerome
Hi all I discover darktable some times ago and quickly switch to version 1.2.3 in debian backports. All was fine and I was very happy. Then I take the opportunity to buy a nVidia GTX-660 card. As I enjoy neat things, I setup my system to use my ATI card with opensource driver for display and t