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measures OpenCL graphics performance  Don't let your gaming card
loaf around anymore. Give it an OpenCL education, complete with
a final grade.  As graphics cards have grown more complex and
powerful over the years, efforts to exploit that processing
power outside of gaming and 3D environments have become more
widespread. If a new graphics card can do more than just play
games faster, that can help justify a purchase. Even mid-range
graphics cards have horsepower to spare when they spend most of
their time serving up desktop applications. The problem has been
harnessing that power without requiring single-supplier hardware
or software solutions that invariably wind up on the yestertech
trash heap.  OpenCL has promised to ameliorate some of these
problems by providing a cross-platform, hardware-independent
means to accelerate various software functions normally
considered the sole province of the CPU. Over time, that promise
has turned into reality wi