OpenCL and OpenGL Performance

We're introducing some OpenCL/OpenGL benchmarks to our test suite to coincide with the Kaveri launch, as they are important and steadily growing open source platforms that are especially relevant to APUs due to the focus on GPU acceleration. Please note that we've only had a chance to test the most relevant processors in these new tests. Also, these are not OpenCL 2.0 benchmarks, and as such none of them are optimised to take advantage of AMD's HSA features.

MuseMage 1.9.6

Website: www.musemage.com

MuseMage is a GPU accelerated image editing software with plenty of advanced features and batch processing. It has a built in benchmark that applies a series of effects and filters to an image in quick succession, awarding a linear score based on completion time.

LuxMark 2.0

Website: www.luxrender.net

LuxMark 2.0 is an OpenCL benchmarking tool for LuxRays, the ray tracing component of the LuxRender suite. It can be set to run its highly parallel OpenCL workload on the CPU, GPU or both at once in one of three scenes of various complexity. We benchmark the Sala scene (medium complexity) and scores are reported in thousands of samples per second.

Rightware BasemarkCL 1.1

Website: www.rightware.com

BasemarkCL is a comprehensive OpenCL and OpenGL benchmarking suite from Rightware that runs a series of heavy parallel workloads, from image manipulation techniques like smoothing and noise reduction, to fluid and wave simulations as well as ray tracing and fractal rendering. We run the entire suite on the GPU portion of a chip and report the final overall score.