News Nvidia's poor RTX 50 compute test results due to missing 32-bit OpenCL support, says PassMark

[Admin]

PassMark reports that Nvidia has dropped 32-bit OpenCL support, rendering legacy code unusable on Blackwell (RTX 50) hardware.

Nvidia's poor RTX 50 compute test results due to missing 32-bit OpenCL support, says PassMark : Read more

 

[George³]

If I had to count the problems with which the RTX 50 series launched, I would have a hard time, because I do not have a higher mathematical education.

 

[Pierce2623]

So did Nvidia call em up like “your benchmark is under-representing our performance dammit!!!” ?

 

[yngndrw]

I think they should retain the OpenCl 32bit tests, as it's still in use.

 

[jp7189]

A quick look through the Blackwell compatibility guide seems to have a bunch of caveats for applications using anything below 12.8, and there are quite a lot of ML apps out there that haven't been updated to v12 let alone 12.8.

It would be interesting to see more ML benchmarks on 5000 series to see if there are performance issues. Lambda hasn't added tge 5000 series to their suite yet, but I'd guess that's likely because 5090's are still darn near non-existant.

 

[beyondlogic]

Oh what a shock dropping 32 bit physx would drop open cl 32 bit lol.

They have killed 32 bit support essentially on this.

 

[truerock]

IMHO...

I am glad to see obsolete technology go away. I think it is a "boat anchor" to new technology.

I do like to see virtual-PCs that support legacy tech. I wish somebody like Bill Gates would fund a few billion dollars to support legacy tech on virtual PCs. There are some pretty good virtual PCs out there... Oracle's, DOSBox, etc. Those are not as good as the original Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 and Virtual PC 2007 (which will not run on Windows 11)

 

[btspaniel]

I'm glad some journalists are doing some smart thinking for once. People shouldn't be blaming Nvidia for all these problems. Programmer should be updating and patching their games and software for modern hardware, We've been doing this forever on the emulation scene. We don't blame Nvidia or console manufacturers, we just inject custom updated programming that actually functions.

P.S. how do I have 18,000 points for a website I never visit with less than five posts.

 

[JTWrenn]

I get that they want to push past 32 bit but....make a damn emulator at this point. How is this not just something that is handled in software for a transitionary period?

 

[Mcnoobler]

I'm glad some journalists are doing some smart thinking for once. People shouldn't be blaming Nvidia for all these problems. Programmer should be updating and patching their games and software for modern hardware, We've been doing this forever on the emulation scene. We don't blame Nvidia or console manufacturers, we just inject custom updated programming that actually functions.

P.S. how do I have 18,000 points for a website I never visit with less than five posts.

18000 points? Omg.

It isn't hard to tell people what they want to hear, and knock it out of the park with points. What is hard is being an individual thinker, and doing it even when found unpopular.

 

[kerberos_20]

I'm glad some journalists are doing some smart thinking for once. People shouldn't be blaming Nvidia for all these problems. Programmer should be updating and patching their games and software for modern hardware, We've been doing this forever on the emulation scene. We don't blame Nvidia or console manufacturers, we just inject custom updated programming that actually functions.

P.S. how do I have 18,000 points for a website I never visit with less than five posts.

because you have old account, acient achievemt (7yr old) is 8k points, then ad some previous achivements

 

[nrdwka]

I'm glad some journalists are doing some smart thinking for once. People shouldn't be blaming Nvidia for all these problems. Programmer should be updating and patching their games and software for modern hardware, We've been doing this forever on the emulation scene. We don't blame Nvidia or console manufacturers, we just inject custom updated programming that actually functions.

P.S. how do I have 18,000 points for a website I never visit with less than five posts.

it is easy to blame devs, but who will pay to make updates, especially on free software?

Peoples "they just must do X" should show an example and do that themselves.

it is the same degree of arrogance as with Win 11 hardware support: younpc does not have have correct version of TPM or a bit too old? lol, just buy a new pc

 

[abufrejoval]

Yeah, that fits: Passmark increases version numbers faster than he updates his software.