What's New in This Release
The following features are added in the 2019 release:
- Added support for 8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors (code-named
Coffee Lake) on Microsoft Windows* and Linux* operating systems
- Intel® CPU Runtime for OpenCL™ Applications 18.1 is now supported
by the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ - offline compiler
- Added support for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel®
AVX-512)
- For more information about OpenCL™ Runtime, please see OpenCL™
Runtime - Release Notes
- Support for SRB5.0 has been deprecated
- Support for Windows* 7 has been deprecated. Please consider the
last available package supporting Windows 7 platforms, Intel® SDK
for OpenCL™ Applications 2017 R2, available at https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-opencl/download.
Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications 2017 R2 will soon be removed as
of Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications 2019 Update 1 release. Intel
SDK for OpenCL Applications 2019 Update 1 will not support Windows
7.
- Bug fixes
- Enable support for Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions for Intel®
FPGA Emulation Platform for OpenCL™
This release contains an experimental version of the CPU Runtime supporting
OpenCL™ 2.1. It will be deprecated in Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications
2019 Update 1. The experimental status implies that OpenCL 2.1 is enabled
on all CPU models but the overall product stability is not guaranteed.
Support for the Experimental product is not planned, only critical issues
will be fixed.
It is recommended to use Intel® CPU Runtime for OpenCL™ Applications
18.1.
Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications 2019 includes all the features previously
available in Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications 2017.