[Test] Hybrid Systems: Radeon HD 6950 for 3D and GeForce GT 240 for OpenCL

ASUS Radeon HD 6950 + Zotac GeForce GT 240, GPU Caps Viewer OpenCL demos
The Radeon HD 6950 (3D) + GeForce GT 240 (OpenCL)


After the test of Catalyst 11.1a, I just reinstalled Catalyst 10.12 (I installed the package without OpenCL) on my devstation for my ASUS HD 6950 and I was suprised to see OpenCL support in GPU Caps Viewer. Actually, the OpenCL support comes from the second card, a Zotac GeForce GT 240 drived by R266.58 (before the Radeon I had yesterday a GTX 470 as primary renderer):

ASUS Radeon HD 6950 + Zotac GeForce GT 240

ASUS Radeon HD 6950 + Zotac GeForce GT 240

So far no big news. But the cool thing is that both card work perfectly together, side by side, to render GPU Caps Viewer OpenCL demos:

ASUS Radeon HD 6950 + Zotac GeForce GT 240, OpenCL surface deformer demo

ASUS Radeon HD 6950 + Zotac GeForce GT 240, GPU Shark
GPU Shark

ASUS Radeon HD 6950 + Zotac GeForce GT 240, MSI Afterburner
MSI Afterburner monitoring

It’s nice to see such mix of graphics hardware working together flawlessly. I like that!

Related posts:

  1. (Tested) GPU Computing – GeForce and Radeon OpenCL Test (Part 1)
  2. [TEST] GPU Computing – GeForce and Radeon OpenCL Test (Part 3)
  3. (Test) OpenCL Support Gets Better and Better
  4. [TEST] GPU Computing – GeForce and Radeon OpenCL Test (Part 4 and Conclusion)
  5. [TEST] GPU Computing – GeForce and Radeon OpenCL Test (Part 2)

5 thoughts on “[Test] Hybrid Systems: Radeon HD 6950 for 3D and GeForce GT 240 for OpenCL”

  1. witek

    Can you start simple OpenCL which lists all devices and show results? and can you send separatly command to queues on different devices? Last time I tested OpenCL i cannot use ati and nvidia cards in the same time in the same program. Only one of it (depending with which dll i linked).

  2. Leith Bade

    Is it working with OpenGL interop, or is it copying data via CPU rather than GPU-GPU?

  4. Promilus

    witek – AMD SDK sample clinfo shows both intel/amd cpus and amd/nv gpus. IIRC nv sample shows only gpu (and probably nv ones not amd)
    @Leith Bade
    “or is it copying data via CPU rather than GPU-GPU”
    It’s always copying data via CPU, interop just makes it easier and with less CPU overhead. I guess there’s no direct GPU2GPU through PCI-E, with or without interop.

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