OpenCL has no effect

[Lucas]

@daniel.b

So does this mean that when I use PRIME on a photo, OpenCL is automatically disabled? I actually enabled PRIME for my tests in order to get maximum processing.

For the processing that needs PRIME, OpenCL is indeed not used. This doesn’t prevent its use for other processing without PRIME that may happen in the meantime though.

@daniel.b

But it looks like a 300W graphics fast car is required to benefit from OpenCL anyway.

Basically a recent (< 5 years old) discrete GPU is indeed needed to see a benefit with OpenCL. I don’t know about power consumption as it’s hard to get the information, but there’re many great graphics cards below 300W TDP.

Also I can’t tell more for now but please note that for the next version of PhotoLab, having a good GPU will make a significant difference.