Adobe Photoshop CS6 + OpenCL GPU acceleration = MIND boggling result

[jacktesterson]

That's really cool, but doesn't Nvidia support OpenCL as well? Heck, doesn't Intel HDx000 support OpenCL as well? If so, I'd love to see those benchmarked as a comparison.

I use CS6

I had a 670 for a few days before the fan quit, and acceleration wasn't supported yet at least for my version.

My AMD A8 in my laptop was/is noticeably faster using acceleration, so at least for now, AMD has the advantage over Nvidia with Photoshop

 

[Dark Shroud]

I had a 670 for a few days before the fan quit, and acceleration wasn't supported yet at least for my version.

Even when it gets certified it's not going to be as strong as the AMD cards.

AMD really focused on GPGPU this last round while Nvidia gutted it from gaming cards. I've already seen people talking about this and going AMD instead of Quadro only because OpenCL is now being supported by Adobe and others are jumping on the bandwagon. Adobe said way back they wanted to use OpenCL at the start but it wasn't good enough at the time vs CUDA.

 

[jacktesterson]

Even when it gets certified it's not going to be as strong as the AMD cards.

AMD really focused on GPGPU this last round while Nvidia gutted it from gaming cards. I've already seen people talking about this and going AMD instead of Quadro only because OpenCL is now being supported by Adobe and others are jumping on the bandwagon. Adobe said way back they wanted to use OpenCL at the start but it wasn't good enough at the time vs CUDA.

Nice to see my cheapo laptop perform quite well in everyday usage

 

[Dark Shroud]

I almost bought A8 based laptops for myself & mother. Then I got an HP Touchpad instead and my mother didn't need a laptop.

When I finally get around to buying laptops they will have AMD GPUs at the very least. I'm looking forward to Trinity and AMD's Ultrabook competitor.

 

[jacktesterson]

So CS6 doesn't support CUDA?

As far as I'm aware no, you would need to use version 5

AMD for now will now have the edge with Photoshop for this generation of cards.

 

[Kippa]

So far as OpenCl is concerend with photoshop only really the Blur function has been heavly optimised for gpu processing. In the Tom's Hardware interview the tech guy said that people would have to wait until CS7 version to come out for lots ot of other functions to be accelerated by OpenCl. I wouldn't upgrade my CS5.5 to CS6 just for blur accleration alone.

Still it is a step in the right direction and is a huge boost to the adoption of OpenCl and gpu processing. For me personally I would love to see the 3d application Lightwave adopt OpenCl and gpu processing. I do realise that not all tasks can be parallised but Luxmark does show as a technical exercise that some aspects of 3d rendering can be parallelised for gpu processing.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I use CS6

I had a 670 for a few days before the fan quit, and acceleration wasn't supported yet at least for my version.

My AMD A8 in my laptop was/is noticeably faster using acceleration, so at least for now, AMD has the advantage over Nvidia with Photoshop

Good find. Thanks for sharing.

 

[borisvodofsky]

This is good news that we're getting some more accelerated features, but CPU is pretty damn fast already..

If anyone's used Photoshop from the beginning, CS5 is already Godly fast in comparison.

 

[Silverforce11]

Its a step in the right direction to enable APUs and even Intel iGPUs to shine.

 

[Gloomy]

Not sure about Windows, but AMD has something like a 50% advantage over Nvidia in OpenCL on Linux.

OpenCL being what it is, and the proprietary drivers being largely the same cross-platform, I wouldn't be surprised if the situation is the same in Windows.