Win10 -> Radeon HD 5xxx and HD 6xxx CRIMSON Drivers don´t use OpenCl ? Well not anymore

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Message 1853448 - Posted: 6 Mar 2017, 11:48:14 UTC
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Hey folks !

I discovered something i would tell to ya.

U know there only these drivers to install in Windows 10, but they don`t have OpenCL.

http://support.amd.com/de-de/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows+10+-+64

Someone was clever to use OPENCL afterall of that.

Guess he wrote a small site, but it wasn´t me. Cheers !

https://www.christianackermann.de/2016/07/amd-fehlender-opencl-support-crimson-unifl-legacy/

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Message 1855754 - Posted: 16 Mar 2017, 12:58:51 UTC - in response to Message 1853448.  

The crimson drivers do have opencl. The problem is that it is version 2.0 and you will need a hd7xxx or higher card to run. For the hd5xxx and hd6xxx series the last usable driver is version 15.7
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Message 1855767 - Posted: 16 Mar 2017, 14:34:09 UTC
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Since the release of Crimson drivers they have only officially supported GCN based GPUs.
The older Terascale based GPUs 15.12 is really the last driver to use. I've used the Windows 7 15.12 driver without problems in Windows 10 with my HD6870's.

I'm not sure if the Windows 10 version has OpenCL or not. It might be the same installer with a different name. I haven't checked.
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Message 1856794 - Posted: 20 Mar 2017, 7:42:43 UTC

For sure, they might be work, but u have a lot of performance loss if u don't use the crimson drivers.

Try it under Win10.
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Message 1856830 - Posted: 20 Mar 2017, 12:55:42 UTC - in response to Message 1856794.  

For sure, they might be work, but u have a lot of performance loss if u don't use the crimson drivers.

Try it under Win10.

I try not to use Win10 unless I am forced.
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