What's New in This Release
Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications
Developer Guide
If your workflows require features discontinued in this
release, you may still download legacy versions from the download
page.
2020 Gold Update 2
- FPGA support was removed from the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Offline Compiler. If your workflows require this functionality, please use Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2020 Update 1, or Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™.
- Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2020 Update 2 includes bug fixes and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.
2020 Gold Update 1
- Updated OpenCL™ API Headers and OpenCL ICD Loader.
- Removed assembly code generation for GPU functionality. If you need this functionality, use the OpenCL Offline Compiler.
- Removed Intel® Debugger for Heterogeneous Compute (GPU kernel debugger). If you need this functionality, use the initial 2020 release, available on the download page
- Removed Intel® CPU Runtime for OpenCL Applications 18.1 from the Windows* installer. You can install it manually from/OpenCL/runtime/cpu/opencl_runtime.msi.Note:Disable your graphic card before installation to avoid installation issues.
- Removed support for Ubuntu* 16.04.
- Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications 2020 Update 1 includes bug fixes and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.
2020 Gold
- Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019.
- Added support for the CentOS-8* platform.
- Added support for generating an optimized ELF binary file from a SPIR-V file to the Offline Compiler command-line interface.
- Removal of SPIR* functionality (use SPIR-V* instead).
- Removal of Intel® Code Builder for OpenCL™ functionality.
- Removal of Kernel Development Framework functionality (you can configure Intel® VTune™ Profiler to see OpenCL API calls).
- Removal of OpenCL API Debugger functionality (you can use the Intercept Layer for OpenCL™ Applications for debugging).
For more information, including system requirements, known issues, and
installation notes, refer to the
Release Notes.