The past few months I’ve been packaging the bits needed for Intel’s new OpenCL driver, which they call NEO. The packages are now finally ready, you can enable ‘ppa:canonical-x/x-staging’ and install ‘intel-opencl’ on Disco. After installing it this is what ‘clinfo’ says on my laptop:
Number of platforms 1
Platform Name Intel(R) OpenCL HD Graphics
Platform Vendor Intel(R) Corporation
Platform Version OpenCL 2.1
Platform Profile FULL_PROFILE
Platform Extensions cl_khr_3d_image_writes cl_khr_byte_addressable_store
cl_khr_fp16 cl_khr_depth_images cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics
cl_khr_icd cl_khr_image2d_from_buffer cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics
cl_intel_subgroups cl_intel_required_subgroup_size cl_intel_subgroups_short cl_khr_spir
cl_intel_accelerator cl_intel_media_block_io cl_intel_driver_diagnostics cl_intel_device_side_avc_motion_estimation
cl_khr_priority_hints cl_khr_throttle_hints cl_khr_create_command_queue cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_subgroups
cl_khr_il_program cl_intel_spirv_device_side_avc_motion_estimation cl_intel_spirv_media_block_io
cl_intel_spirv_subgroups cl_khr_spirv_no_integer_wrap_decoration cl_khr_mipmap_image cl_khr_mipmap_image_writes
cl_intel_planar_yuv cl_intel_packed_yuv cl_intel_motion_estimation cl_intel_advanced_motion_estimation
cl_intel_va_api_media_sharing
Platform Host timer resolution 1ns
Platform Extensions function suffix INTEL
Platform Name Intel(R) OpenCL HD Graphics
Number of devices 1
Device Name Intel(R) Gen9 HD Graphics NEO
Device Vendor Intel(R) Corporation
Device Vendor ID 0x8086
Device Version OpenCL 2.1 NEO
Driver Version 1.0.0
Device OpenCL C Version OpenCL C 2.0
Device Type GPU
Device Profile FULL_PROFILE
Device Available Yes
Compiler Available Yes
Linker Available Yes
Max compute units 24
Max clock frequency 1100MHz
Device Partition (core)
Max number of sub-devices 0
Supported partition types None
Supported affinity domains (n/a)
Max work item dimensions 3
Max work item sizes 256x256x256
Max work group size 256
Preferred work group size multiple 32
Max sub-groups per work group 32
Sub-group sizes (Intel) 8, 16, 32
Preferred / native vector sizes
char 16 / 16
short 8 / 8
int 4 / 4
long 1 / 1
half 8 / 8 (cl_khr_fp16)
float 1 / 1
double 1 / 1 (cl_khr_fp64)
Half-precision Floating-point support (cl_khr_fp16)
Denormals Yes
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero Yes
Round to infinity Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add Yes
Support is emulated in software No
Single-precision Floating-point support (core)
Denormals Yes
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero Yes
Round to infinity Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add Yes
Support is emulated in software No
Correctly-rounded divide and sqrt operations Yes
Double-precision Floating-point support (cl_khr_fp64)
Denormals Yes
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero Yes
Round to infinity Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add Yes
Support is emulated in software No
Address bits 64, Little-Endian
Global memory size 13253832704 (12.34GiB)
Error Correction support No
Max memory allocation 4294959104 (4GiB)
Unified memory for Host and Device Yes
Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) capabilities (core)
Coarse-grained buffer sharing Yes
Fine-grained buffer sharing No
Fine-grained system sharing No
Atomics No
Minimum alignment for any data type 128 bytes
Alignment of base address 1024 bits (128 bytes)
Preferred alignment for atomics
SVM 64 bytes
Global 64 bytes
Local 64 bytes
Max size for global variable 65536 (64KiB)
Preferred total size of global vars 4294959104 (4GiB)
Global Memory cache type Read/Write
Global Memory cache size 524288 (512KiB)
Global Memory cache line size 64 bytes
Image support Yes
Max number of samplers per kernel 16
Max size for 1D images from buffer 268434944 pixels
Max 1D or 2D image array size 2048 images
Base address alignment for 2D image buffers 4 bytes
Pitch alignment for 2D image buffers 4 pixels
Max 2D image size 16384x16384 pixels
Max planar YUV image size 16384x16352 pixels
Max 3D image size 16384x16384x2048 pixels
Max number of read image args 128
Max number of write image args 128
Max number of read/write image args 128
Max number of pipe args 16
Max active pipe reservations 1
Max pipe packet size 1024
Local memory type Local
Local memory size 65536 (64KiB)
Max number of constant args 8
Max constant buffer size 4294959104 (4GiB)
Max size of kernel argument 1024
Queue properties (on host)
Out-of-order execution Yes
Profiling Yes
Queue properties (on device)
Out-of-order execution Yes
Profiling Yes
Preferred size 131072 (128KiB)
Max size 67108864 (64MiB)
Max queues on device 1
Max events on device 1024
Prefer user sync for interop Yes
Profiling timer resolution 83ns
Execution capabilities
Run OpenCL kernels Yes
Run native kernels No
Sub-group independent forward progress Yes
IL version SPIR-V_1.0
SPIR versions 1.2
printf() buffer size 4194304 (4MiB)
Built-in kernels block_motion_estimate_intel;block_advanced_motion_estimate_check_intel;block_advanced_motion_estimate_bidirectional_check_intel;
Motion Estimation accelerator version (Intel) 2
Device-side AVC Motion Estimation version 1
Supports texture sampler use Yes
Supports preemption No
Device Extensions cl_khr_3d_image_writes cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_fp16 cl_khr_depth_images cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_icd cl_khr_image2d_from_buffer cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_intel_subgroups cl_intel_required_subgroup_size cl_intel_subgroups_short cl_khr_spir cl_intel_accelerator cl_intel_media_block_io cl_intel_driver_diagnostics cl_intel_device_side_avc_motion_estimation cl_khr_priority_hints cl_khr_throttle_hints cl_khr_create_command_queue cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_subgroups cl_khr_il_program cl_intel_spirv_device_side_avc_motion_estimation cl_intel_spirv_media_block_io cl_intel_spirv_subgroups cl_khr_spirv_no_integer_wrap_decoration cl_khr_mipmap_image cl_khr_mipmap_image_writes cl_intel_planar_yuv cl_intel_packed_yuv cl_intel_motion_estimation cl_intel_advanced_motion_estimation cl_intel_va_api_media_sharing
NULL platform behavior
clGetPlatformInfo(NULL, CL_PLATFORM_NAME, ...) Intel(R) OpenCL HD Graphics
clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL, ...) Success [INTEL]
clCreateContext(NULL, ...) [default] Success [INTEL]
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_DEFAULT) Success (1)
Platform Name Intel(R) OpenCL HD Graphics
Device Name Intel(R) Gen9 HD Graphics NEO
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU) No devices found in platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU) Success (1)
Platform Name Intel(R) OpenCL HD Graphics
Device Name Intel(R) Gen9 HD Graphics NEO
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ACCELERATOR) No devices found in platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CUSTOM) No devices found in platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL) Success (1)
Platform Name Intel(R) OpenCL HD Graphics
Device Name Intel(R) Gen9 HD Graphics NEO
ICD loader properties
ICD loader Name OpenCL ICD Loader
ICD loader Vendor OCL Icd free software
ICD loader Version 2.2.11
ICD loader Profile OpenCL 2.1
I’ll check with Intel if some of the ‘no devices found’ are to be expected or not..
It’s still possible these might end up in the 19.04 release, we’ll see. They’re also uploaded to Debian, though with the Buster release keeping everyone busy I’m sure it’ll take some time to get them all through the NEW queue.
NOTE: if you already have the stack installed from Intel’s github repo, please uninstall it first. Otherwise there will be file conflicts since the package names won’t match.
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