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Message 42248 - Posted: 20 Sep 2010, 0:14:46 UTC

Will there ever be an application that will utilize the ATI GPU on a Mac?
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Message 42250 - Posted: 20 Sep 2010, 0:29:56 UTC - in response to Message 42248.  

Yes. It shouldn't be too long now.
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Message 42780 - Posted: 12 Oct 2010, 12:22:15 UTC

Any progress Matt?
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Message 42784 - Posted: 12 Oct 2010, 15:04:59 UTC - in response to Message 42780.  

I thought it it would work, but I've discovered that Apple's OpenCL implementation doesn't support doubles on the GPU (at least for ATI). It definitely should, but it doesn't.
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