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AMD has support for all their recent GPUs and CPUS, and has good performance on products starting from 2010/2011:
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AMD does not provide a standard SDK kit which contains both hardware and software, as their hardware is available at many computer-shops.
SDK
The OpenCL SDK (software) needs to be downloaded in several steps:
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- Graphics drivers
- APP SDK with code-examples
- CodeXL:
- CPU profiling
- GPU profiling
- GPU debugging
- Static OpenCL kernel analysis
- CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer
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CodeXL replaces the following software in de AMD APP software family:
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These are still available for download.
Training
There is (free) training material available:
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Other AMD software for OpenCL
The APP Math Libraries contain FFT and BLAS functions optimised for AMD GPUs.
OpenCL-in-Java can be done using Aparapi.