For those of you who read my overview on AMD’s Trinity that launched two days ago, you might be interested in how OpenCL benefits you even if you’re not on the new platform with the “Devastator” GPU. Gaming aside, AMD’s biggest flaw is single-thread performance and an overall lack of computing muscle compared to Intel’s last-generation part, Sandy Bridge.

OpenCL looks to give customers heterogeneous computing abilities no matter the platform, allowing applications to take advantage of GPU acceleration together with your CPU to make short work of things like video encoding, photo editing and animation, to name a few workloads and AMD’s Bulldozer cores currently suck at. With Trinity, AMD has pushed forward their agenda to open the OpenCL standard to all applications that could use it and Anandtech showed the world how it could help Intel users, too.














