[gmx-developers] AMD Radio Pro Vega 64 graphics card

[Vedran Miletić]

Is Vega 64 with OpenCL really that fast that it competes with non-Ti
1080 (ignoring TDP, of course)?

Regards,
Vedran

On 02/23/2018 05:45 PM, Erik Lindahl wrote:
> Having said that, the iMac Pro is likely a $5k machine that will give
> you about the same performance as a $1k Linux box with either a 1080 or
> Vega64, and those will also be upgradeable ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Erik
> 
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> On 23 Feb 2018, at 17:38, John Eblen <jeblen at acm.org
> <mailto:jeblen at acm.org>> wrote:
> 
>> Great - thanks! Apparently other MD codes are not quite as portable...
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Erik Lindahl <erik.lindahl at gmail.com
>> <mailto:erik.lindahl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Caveat: Not tested, but I *have* tested all other recent AMD cards
>>     in Macs, and they do work, so unless there's a very special OpenCL
>>     bug it should work a-ok. 
>>
>>     On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 5:17 PM, Erik Lindahl
>>     <erik.lindahl at gmail.com <mailto:erik.lindahl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Yes.
>>
>>         On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 5:13 PM, John Eblen <jeblen at acm.org
>>         <mailto:jeblen at acm.org>> wrote:
>>
>>             Hi
>>
>>             A colleague wants to know if there are MD codes that
>>             support the "AMD Radio Pro Vega 64 graphics card in the
>>             new iMacPro." Does GROMACS have support?
>>
>>
>>             Thanks
>>             John
>>
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