OpenCl and CUDA

[Leonard]

So most people dislike VirtuMVP and it gives buggy performance for others. I keep hearing about OpenCl and CUDA and i have a OpenCl and CUDA capable GPU but i have no knowledge of how to implement them for my GPU to use OpenCl and CUDA if possible. Has anyone done this as yet and if so how?

[brownninja97]

What gpu is that, opencl is for only AMD and cuda is only nvidia so what card do you have which has the ability to properly use both.

[electrostatic]

Actually, while CUDA is NVIDIA only, OpenCL is supported on both AMD and (current) NVIDIA hardware.  From what I'm seeing though, OpenCL currently performs better on AMD GPUs.  

 

  https://developer.nvidia.com/opencl

 

As far as using CUDA or OpenCL, it depends on what software you're using and whether it's designed to use the GPU via CUDA or OpenCL.  Windows games typically just use DirectX, which will then use CUDA or OpenCL via the GPU's driver software.  Specialized software like video editing or 3D graphics packages will use the GPU directly through the drivers for compute-heavy jobs.

 

So basically, your GPU drivers likely already have OpenCL and/or CUDA enabled depending on the hardware you have, you just need to find out whether your software can take advantage of it.

[Leonard]

What gpu is that, opencl is for only AMD and cuda is only nvidia so what card do you have which has the ability to properly use both.

I use a Galaxy 660Ti 3GB vesion and GPU tweak says it is OpenCl as well as CUDA.

[Leonard]

Actually, while CUDA is NVIDIA only, OpenCL is supported on both AMD and (current) NVIDIA hardware.  From what I'm seeing though, OpenCL currently performs better on AMD GPUs.  

 

  https://developer.nvidia.com/opencl

 

As far as using CUDA or OpenCL, it depends on what software you're using and whether it's designed to use the GPU via CUDA or OpenCL.  Windows games typically just use DirectX, which will then use CUDA or OpenCL via the GPU's driver software.  Specialized software like video editing or 3D graphics packages will use the GPU directly through the drivers for compute-heavy jobs.

 

So basically, your GPU drivers likely already have OpenCL and/or CUDA enabled depending on the hardware you have, you just need to find out whether your software can take advantage of it.

I just want to know if i can make my gaming any smoother and enhanced. I play MW3, MW2 MW. I just thought there were programs that allowed you to use the CUDA or OpenCl to make the game get more FPS like virtuMVP. 

[electrostatic]

I just want to know if i can make my gaming any smoother and enhanced. I play MW3, MW2 MW. I just thought there were programs that allowed you to use the CUDA or OpenCl to make the game get more FPS like virtuMVP. 

 

From what I can tell, virtuMVP doesn't actually improve the performance of the game itself, it lets it run at the highest frame rate it can by removing the limitation of your monitor's refresh rate and without the lag introduced by normal vsync.  So yes, it might get you higher frame rates without tearing or using normal vsync.  But like you said, it's apparently quite a pain to get working properly.

[xAcid9]

I just want to know if i can make my gaming any smoother and enhanced. I play MW3, MW2 MW. I just thought there were programs that allowed you to use the CUDA or OpenCl to make the game get more FPS like virtuMVP. 

 

No, it doesn't work like that.

[Leonard]

No, it doesn't work like that.

Ok.