Discussion Intel OneAPI

What are your thoughts on Intel's OneAPI and will it have support in HDRP ?
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html

 

OneAPI is not by intel, they are just one of the vendors supporting it https://www.oneapi.io/ and have released some of their own stuff surrounding it, but yeah its multiple organisations working together

As for support, dont expect anything new like this to land in unity for at least another 3 years, in a usable form - if it actually provides any value that is.

 

My immediate thought?

Spoiler

 

My observation is new APIs and thier libraries generally increase the size of applications.

But Intel Alchemist graphic units should support Unity. Potentially, this heterogeneous computing idea could increase performance for HDRP.

 

In a way that is a fraction of a percent the size of any graphical or audio asset.

 

For the first time Cycles added support for Arc GPUs using oneAPI.
https://developer.blender.org/rBa02992f1313

 

Just be aware that this was the work of an Intel application engineer and not the core developers. While it's likely it will remain it's entirely possible that he won't contribute further and no one will step up to maintain it. Hasn't been the first time I have seen that in open source.

 

What is the difference in architecture between oneAPI DPC++ compiler and Burst in Unity?
Can they get to work together ?

 

Would like to see Unity open up the AI denoising stuff for general scripting. Having it to had is a good time saver vs manual implementation (for tooling etc).