Intel Arc Battlemage B580 for folding?

[CaptainHalon]

Anyone know if these will support double precision so they can be used with F@H?

[Joe_H]

All I have heard was a maybe a year or so ago that the next generation Arc would have hardware FP64. But the information released so far on the Battlemage cards does not include any FP64 performance figures. Intel also seems to be going for 16-bit processing for certain aspects of the video processing. So until they actually ship, my guess is no.

[CaptainHalon]

I did find this on the web, so maybe that's promising:



The cards are supposed to be out December 13th. Assuming the hardware did support FAH, about how long do you think it would take to see a client update that supports it?

[Joe_H]

It shouldn't take any client update, just an updated entry in the GPUs.txt and gpus.json files. As far as I know they have been creating OpenCL for Intel GPUs folding cores right along as they supported the older Intel iGPUs referred to as being Gen 9 and 11 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_I ... units#Gen9. Intel removed the hardware FP64 support with Gen 12, aka Intel Xe. There hasn't always been small enough project WUs to utilize those iGPUs the last couple years though.

[muziqaz]

We are asking around to confirm