Sunday, March 15th 2009

AMD Announces ATI Stream SDK Version 1.4

ATI on Friday released ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) version 1.4, the fourth installment of the free toolkit, that provides a way for developers to find what ATI Stream technology is capable of. The standard toolkit delivers a full-featured software development environment that exposes the amazing computational power of AMD GPUs in an easy to use interface. Version 1.4 of the development kit brings many improvements to previous versions, the full list of which is listed below. To download the ATI Stream SDK, please click here.

What's New:
  • Feature enhancements to Brook+
  • Support for multiple GPUs in a single program
  • Support for 8-bit and 16-bit integer types
  • Interoperability with DirectX API
  • Access to thread-level data sharing
  • Improved support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
  • Performance enhancement to the Brook+ runtime
  • Support for memory pinning to optimize data transfers
  • Support for asynchronous stream write calls
  • Additional hardware features exposed in the Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL)
  • Support for texture sampling (bilinear)
  • Support for FETCH4
  • Support for the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 consumer graphics card
  • Support for the ATI FirePro 3D V8750, V8700, V7770, V7750, V5700 and V3750 professional graphics accelerators
Source: AMD
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13 Comments on AMD Announces ATI Stream SDK Version 1.4

#1
Haytch
Brilliant.
Dont forget this is a beta version.
Confirmed 4870x2 support, finally.
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#2
Lillebror
Sounds like its getting better and better, quite fast! :D Makes me hope for more programs that are made to utilize gpu's!
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#5
Lillebror
The youtube link works for me
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#6
AltecV1
that is a nub question but what does it actualy do? is it like cuda:confused:
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#7
a111087
AltecV1that is a nub question but what does it actualy do? is it like cuda:confused:
yes
and link to video works here too
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#8
captainskyhawk
It'd be nice if they could offer lots of support and assistance for developers like nvidia is for CUDA
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#9
csendesmark
I wannt better support for DXVA under XP32bit :)
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#10
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
The HD version finally works for me, but not the SD version...doesn't really seem all that interesting. The best they could manage as a demo was spread sheet calculations? Or am I missing something?
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#11
wayneferrell479
newtekie1The HD version finally works for me, but not the SD version...doesn't really seem all that interesting. The best they could manage as a demo was spread sheet calculations? Or am I missing something?
I am finding the same thing and would like to know if I have also missed something (which isnt all that unlikely for me)
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#12
ShadowFold
It's doing stocks calculations faster than a CPU would. I don't see what's special either, but I'm sure there are a lot of people that do.
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#13
TreadR
I don't know why anyone would expect something "else"... PhysX isn't the only alternate thing you can do with a GPU.
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