With the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard release, OpenCL general purpose computing specification also made the first step in the direction of where we simply compare laptop battery CPU and graphics processors, GPU differences in this respect.
Even with the support of the operating system, but the support of the application is also OpenCL few, but in performance testing has been made a “OpenCL Benchmark”, you can examine a computer processor and Mac graphics cards OpenCL performance, currently supports the OpenCL The cards include:
- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 5600
-ATI Radeon HD 4850, Radeon HD 4870
Processor supports Intel Core 2 Duo, Xeon series, but does not support single-core Core Duo.
Interestingly, both high-end MacBook Pro notebooks GeForce 9400M Inspiron 5160 battery,Inspiron 6000 battery,Inspiron 630m battery,Inspiron 6400 battery,Inspiron 640m battery integrated graphics also have GeForce 9600M GT discrete graphics processor is a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, which gives us a very nice contrast to the environment, only two kinds of graphics switch need to log off and re-landing system.
Test results are as follows (of course, the sooner the better):
GeForce 9400M: 3.081 Miao
GeForce 9600M GT: 2.805 Miao
Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz: 15.459 Miao
In addition, the floating-point test program “AO Bench” has also been imported OpenCL, tested GeForce 9400M performer 2.8FPS around, Core 2 Duo P7350 2.0GHz is only about 1.1FPS.