Date: 03/12/2009

AMD and SiSoftware collaborates to develop OpenCL GPGPU benchmark suite

AMD and SiSoftware have collaborated for the development of an OpenCL GPGPU benchmark suite that includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, mobile devices and networks, and can be used to test OpenCL performance on ATI Stream technology.

OpenCL is for running parallel tasks on CPUs and GPUs using the same code.

To test performance the SiSoftware OpenCL GPGPU benchmark suite runs computationally intense algorithms like the Mandelbrot set.

AMD says, working with SiSoftware it has optimized the performance of the OpenCL benchmarks for its GPU implementations, and for some problems has demonstrated performance advantages using AMD's ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) for OpenCL. When compared to NVIDIA's CUDA running on its GeForce GTX 295 featuring two GPUs, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card with one GPU delivers up to 2.7 times faster performance on certain benchmark tests.

AMD and SiSoftware are currently collaborating to measure performance of AMD's entire platform, including x86 CPUs.

For more details visit www.amd.com