Renderscript now works on GPUs

Nexus 10 comes with the Mali T604 GPU and it is the first device to support Renderscript on the GPU. Previously, Renderscript only ran on CPUs. The documentation still remains sparse to non-existant though. For example, it is not clear which code can run on the GPU successfully and there are no performance guidelines either. There are no good code samples, no books and poor tutorials.

Nexus 10 does not appear to support OpenCL, which is VERY disappointing.

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Posted on January 11, 2013, in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.

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Sean Lumly | January 22, 2013 at 7:56 pm

It would be great if you posted any insights on Renderscript performance on the Nexus 10. I am curious how many FLOPs can be expected in practice, how taxing certain operations (eg. sqrt, trig) are, and what code actually runs on the GPU!

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- Rahul Garg | January 28, 2013 at 3:30 am
  
  Unfortunately I am currently not working with Android or Renderscript so I cannot comment on the performance expectations. I am mostly focused on OpenCL for GPU computing projects currently.
  
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