Questions tagged [ati]

ATI Technologies is a semiconductor technology company based on the development of graphics processing units and chipsets;

ATI Technologies is a semiconductor technology company based on the development of graphics processing units and chipsets; and top competitor of Nvidia.

Its original headquarters is located in Markham, Ontario, Canada; founded in 1985 as Array Technologies Inc. then succeeded by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in 2006.

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Read GPU temperature in C#

I want to create a program that monitors my GPU's temperature (AMD ATI HD) and if it goes below say 50C to send me an email. I know how to send an email - I just have no idea on how to get the temerature :/ Any help would be awesome! Running Visual…
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Executing a GLSL function only once

Is there a way to execute a function only once with some kind of boolean check on GLSL? Or am i missing something important? The code below doesn't seem to help. bool once = false; DoOnce() { for (int i = 0; i < someConst; i++) { …
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How do I detect "invalid drawable" in Mac OS X?

I am working on a cross platform application that is over a decade old. The UI is by Qt and backend rendering is done with OpenGL. OpenGL contexts are managed in the back end, not by Qt. I have recently added error checking and reporting for all…
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HLSL point sprite texture coordinates work on ATI not NVIDIA

I am really stuck on this one. My HLSL for rendering point sprites with texture coordinates for a sprite sheet works fine on all ATI cards but not on any NVIDIA cards. On NVIDIA cards the passed texture coordinates map to the whole sprite sheet…
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gdb: how to get a complete backtrace when fglrx_dri.so segfaults?

I'm experiencing segmentation faults in the fglrx dri library when running my own Qt based OpenGL application. The backtrace I get from gdb (with dbg symbols installed for Qt and my own application): Thread 1 (Thread 0xb7fd9720 (LWP 1809)): #0 …
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Memory Leaks and Errors related to OpenGL, SDL, and Graphics Drivers

System & Library Specications: Operating System - Ubuntu 11.10 Graphics Card - ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 Graphics Driver Version - fglrx-updates/fglrx-updates-dev (2:8.881-0ubuntu6.1) SDL Version - libsdl1.2debian-all (SDL 1.2.14-6.1) OpenGL…
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How to get GPU load in percentage and GPU temperature on AMD video cards

Anyone know how get GPU load (in percentage) and GPU temperature on Radeon video cards using some API from some AMD SDK? It's looks like AGS SDK dosn't have needed API. For example NVIDIA has NVAPI, but what about AMD? Looking for solution on…
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Slow GPU performance on OpenCL kernel

I'm kinda at a lost with some performance with OpenCL on an AMD GPU (Hawaii core or Radeon R9 390). The operation is as follows: send memory object #1 to GPU execute kernel #1 send memory object #2 to GPU execute kernel #2 send memory object #3 to…
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Shadow acne on Nvidia graphics card

A partner and I are working on a small demo in OpenGL. We are doing simple shadow mapping. He uses an ATI and Intel HD graphics 4000 and everything works fine. I use a GTX 560 TI and get shadow acne although we use the same code. When I'm moving…
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How to develop OpenCL code for both ATI and NVIDIA?

I want to write a raytracer and GPGPU seems like a very good way to accelerate it. The problem is that although OpenCL is a Khronos standard, it seems Intel, NVIDIA and ATI have all released their own SDK. Although it seems most people around here…
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Does OS X Lion provide OpenCL image support for Radeon 5770?

On OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8), OpenCL image support is not available on my Mac Pro with Radeon 5770 graphics card. Indeed this is believed to be common to all AMD/ATI Radeon cards under Snow Leopard and earlier. Specifically: …
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Fragment shaders on ATI cards versus NVIDIA ones

I use this fragent shader (inspired from some tutorial found on the NVIDIA site some time ago). It basically compute bi-linear interpolation of a 2D texture. uniform sampler2D myTexture; uniform vec2 textureDimension; #define texel_size_x 1.0 /…
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Local data store vs. Texture cache in Cayman Architecture for scientific computation

I am trying to implement a GEMM implmentation using AMD-APP-SDK 2.4 on a ATI HD 6990 card (Cayman architecture). One of the optimizing techniques is the use of blocking/tiling. In its implementation, is it faster if we store the sub-matrices in the…
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OpenCL doesn't find ATI card

I have a notebook with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650, and want to use the card for computing =) After installing AMD APP SDK v.2 (installation was OK) I tried to run code samples, provided with AMD. But there is a problem: when I run a sample, it…
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ATI OpenCL SDK on OSX

I am owning new MPB with ATI-GK. I'am curios, whether i can download the sdk, special the example collection and profiler, for OSX or I have to run Windows/Linux nativelly, because i have found only versions for windows and linux? Thanks in advance.
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