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AMD Offers ATI Stream SDK v1.4

Started by dhilipkumar, Mar 21, 2009, 12:38 PM

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AMD has released ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) v1.4, the fourth installment of the free toolkit with enhancements for developers.

ATI Stream technology is a combination of hardware and software that leverages the capabilities of AMD graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate compute-intensive applications. The goal for the ATI Stream SDK is to provide an open, industry-standard toolkit that enables broad application adoption of ATI Stream technology.

This software release serves as an upgrade to ATI Stream SDK v1.3 and includes these improvements, according to AMD:

- Feature enhancements to Brook+:
- Support for multiple GPUs in a single program - Support for 8-bit and 16-bit integer types - Interoperability with DirectX API - Access to thread-level data sharing - Improved support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 - Performance enhancement to the Brook+ runtime:
- Support for memory pinning to optimize data transfers - Support for asynchronous stream write calls - Additional hardware features exposed in the Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL):
- Support for texture sampling (bilinear) - Support for FETCH4 - Support for the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 consumer graphics card - Support for the ATI FirePro 3D V8750, V8700, V7770, V7750, V5700 and V3750 professional graphics accelerators ((Comments on this story may be sent to