Gregory St. Laurent Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Is GPU acceleration still being considered for the Windows version of Photo? Quote Desktop: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB Ram, RTX 3070, LG 27" 4K 10Bit Windows 11 22h2 Dell Laptop: i7 7700, 32GB Ram, GTX 1060, 16" 4K Windows 10 22h2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted October 21, 2019 Staff Share Posted October 21, 2019 Hi Gregory St. Laurent, This is still being worked on for the Windows version of Affinity, so it hasn't been forgotten about Gregory St. Laurent and Stagea 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory St. Laurent Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 1 hour ago, stokerg said: Hi Gregory St. Laurent, This is still being worked on for the Windows version of Affinity, so it hasn't been forgotten about Thanks for the update! Quote Desktop: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB Ram, RTX 3070, LG 27" 4K 10Bit Windows 11 22h2 Dell Laptop: i7 7700, 32GB Ram, GTX 1060, 16" 4K Windows 10 22h2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagea Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 Good to hear. A lot of us are eagerly awaiting this. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affinidesigner Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Does anyone have an idea what the timeframe looks like for GPU support for Windows? Surely Mac isn't so good. 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 8 hours ago, Affinidesigner said: Does anyone have an idea what the timeframe looks like for GPU support for Windows? I think it's highly unlikely that there'll be an answer from Serif. If they even hint at a timescale there'll be people outraged that this hypercritical feature isn't being implemented quickly enough. If it isn't available by that date there'll be more outraged screams that firm comittments haven't been met! Experienced developers learn to announce new features when they're available, and not before. Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 9 hours ago, Affinidesigner said: Surely Mac isn't so good. 😉 It is "good" only in the sense that because Apple makes both the OS & the hardware it runs on, supporting GPU acceleration is basically just a matter of writing the code to access the low level API's already built into the OS & optimizing it for a relatively short list of GPUs -- just those that recent Mac models either ship with or conform to Apple's specifications that ensure they will work well with those API's & the rest of the hardware in those Macs. This also means that when Apple releases new Mac models, Apple will do most of the 'heavy lifting' to minimize or eliminate the need for app developers to revise their code to work with the new hardware. It is more complicated for Windows because there are so many more hardware configurations to support, many of which may require specific drivers or other supporting software that is not installed by default along with the OS. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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