Can MATLAB work well and paralellize code with AMD Radeon HD 7670m graphics card ?

Hi,

I'm confused between two laptops,

• Samsung i7, 8G RAM, win8 64-bit ... and the graphics card is NVIDIA 650M 2G which was perfect for me in case I decided to use GPU processing in MATLAB ..
• and other samsung laptop with the exact same specifications except that the graphics card is "AMD Radeon HD 7670m 2G" ... and some other resolution and sound differences that don't matter to me..

and the 2nd laptop is cheaper..

my question is, can MATLAB work well with the 2nd laptop ? is there a way that GPU functions work on another card other than NVIDIA ?

and is the other parallel processing tools as good as the GPU functions in case I decided to parallelize and speed up my code ?

Answer 1

[Edric Ellis]

Currently, the gpuArray support in Parallel Computing Toolbox supports only NVIDIA GPU devices of compute capability 1.3 or greater. See this page for more.

Answer 2

[Royi Avital]

Unfortunately, MATLAB doesn't support OpenCL. ATI is the right choice for GPGPU.

MATLAB, at the moment, isn't.

You can always do it via MEX files and use ArrayFire.