Yes…I was one of the first to advocate hardware driven OpenCL as an alternative. However when you are working with 4k footage, every bit of graphics power is appreciated. There is no doubt that CUDA is faster (when it works!)…much faster, especially on graphic intensive renders. You also have to remember that these cards and machines were, to some extent purchased by people on the basis that CUDA could do what was promised. These users (myself included) have been enormously patient, however there now needs to be a statement from Nvidia, Apple and Adobe stating that they cannot resolve the problems and that they can no longer support CUDA and stop trying to deceive the current users into thinking that the ’latest driver’ are a fix. When you see new drivers being released (and I have lost count of how many times this has happened with Nvidia and CUDA), it is not unreasonable to expect these drivers work and that they address the issues that the previous drivers did not. However they are being released without proper testing and documentation…because the users (people like you and I) are seeing the problems showing up almost immediately. Whoever is responsible is wasting our time and needs to be sacked! Get someone who can actually write code! The companies need cooperate and pay some attention to this, remove the current staff responsible for this fiasco and employ someone who can fix it…the alternative is to make the decision that the problem cannot be resolved and inform the current users of this. Anything else is deceptive!
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