Next Generation GPU Support
AMD and Nvidia both have released their next generation of GPUs. Reading a previous thread which points to this benchmark makes me think that the RX480 will give me the biggest improvement for the price (I currently have a no GPU i7 3770 system). But when reading this KB article the RX480 is no where to be found and it seems like the best card I can get if I want to use the 9.x branch of C1 is the GTX970 which costs about the same but doesn't preform as well.
How soon till the RX 480 is supported? Or should I just go get the GTX 970?
How soon till the RX 480 is supported? Or should I just go get the GTX 970?
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You need to know that this forum facility is provided by Phase as a User to User communication medium primarily.
You may get a generic answer - Phase do not usually discuss future development plans or make any comments about them - but the question of "When" is likely to go unanswered since promising time scales can be a really bad idea. So many things can affect the predictions.
I would guess it is safe to say that new products and new technologies will be supported. You could buy then new tech now and await developments without losing anything since your current system has no GPU card anyway (if I read you post correctly.)
To indicate your interest you should ask the question in a Support Case. This will help Phase to assess the level of interest amongst the user base and, ultimately, likely helps everyone to get the support they would like in a timely fashion for the most popular equipment together with whatever else can fit into the development plans.
HTH.
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480 supports OCL, so there's no reason why it won't work 0 -
I submitted a support request, thanks for the tip!
I agree that the card should work but it's strange that the KB article has a very small selection of supported GPUs (GTX 950, GTX 970, Radeon R9 Nano, Intel HD Graphics 520).0 -
[quote="Bobtographer" wrote:
480 supports OCL, so there's no reason why it won't work
I think it may depend on things like the Drivers and so on.
OpenCL has it standards and is still, afaik, in its own development phase so assuming that something will work in all situations is not an entirely safe conclusion at day one - as we have seen in the past two years or so.
As I recall even Apple got its GPU support wrong on new product releases not so long back.
So yes, things should work but early releases may not be entirely error free. Indeed there have been many cases of later driver updates intorducing problems for some configurations along with new features (many of which will not be relevant to photo editing but they are delivered anyway.)
Grant0 -
[quote="mikeytown2" wrote:
I submitted a support request, thanks for the tip!
I agree that the card should work but it's strange that the KB article has a very small selection of supported GPUs (GTX 950, GTX 970, Radeon R9 Nano, Intel HD Graphics 520).
Those are the cards that have been tested (I assume) with V9 but not with earlier versions (as the cards were not available).
It should be reasonable to assume that earlier cards will also work with later versions of C1 - although there may come a time when that is not the case in the same way that operating systems can drop support for older products as the years pass.
Grant0 -
Got a reply from support If the card and drivers support OpenCL, we should have support for it natively. However, it should be noted that with some GPU/Driver combos there can be errors which we do try to address quickly. As we don’t have that model here to test out, I can’t definitively say if it will result in errors or not, though theoretically it should not.
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Ended up getting a GTX 1060 3GB card and it totally works! The CPU is no longer pegged at 100% on all 8 cores and it goes pretty fast. 0
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