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Old May 30, 2011, 06:44 AM   #1
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Why does AMD forbid readings of video memory usage under Windows 7?

I just don't understand it Is it because the AMD driver team is lazy?

NVIDIA still offers such function. I bet it could be handy when optimizing CUDA programs. However there is no such equivalent in ATI Stream SDK / OpenCL etc. What is wrong? OpenCL claims to be able to handle memory hierarchy, but what good can be done by hiding the video memory usage?
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I just don't understand it Is it because the AMD driver team is lazy?

NVIDIA still offers such function. I bet it could be handy when optimizing CUDA programs. However there is no such equivalent in ATI Stream SDK / OpenCL etc. What is wrong? OpenCL claims to be able to handle memory hierarchy, but what good can be done by hiding the video memory usage?
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