AMD has announced the availability of the second generation ATI Stream SDK, the first SDK, designed for both AMD GPU and CPU x86. This release, ATI Stream SDK v2.0, supports a wide range of graphics processors ATI, including the new chip ATI Radeon HD 5970, the world's fastest graphics card capable of delivering up to five teraflops of computing power.The inclusion of codes for intensive computation can use all the resources of the system, allowing ATI Stream SDK v2.0 helps developers create great applications.

This release of ATI Stream SDK v2.0 allows developers, independent software vendors of software and OEM-producers on Wednesday to create applications that allows them to more easily create applications with accelerated graphics. The new software environment allows developers to use a combination of computing power of CPU and GPU, so that developers can take advantage of heterogeneous architectures to improve performance on your computer.

The developers, ISVs and OEM-manufacturers are increasingly looking to harness the power and performance of a heterogeneous architecture to develop applications that will work as they were intended, on all available processors of the system. AMD has plans to release regular updates, improving the SDK, and increasing productivity, which further enables developers, independent software vendors and OEM-manufacturers to optimize the program to run on GPUs and GPU power to use in their applications.

Release ATI Stream SDK v2.0 includes support for several new features, including OpenCL ICD (Installable Driver Client), atomic functions for 32-bit integers, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 ─ built-in utility to analyze the performance ATI Stream Profiler. Soon to be available such features as support for the interaction of OpenGL and Microsoft DirectX 10, as well as basic arithmetic of double-precision floating-point cores OpenCL C.

With the advent of OpenCL ICD developers can easily support several products that are compatible with OpenCL, with their applications ATI Stream by interviewing and selection process at work, providing support for devices from different manufacturers. This makes it easier for developers to create and support ATI Stream-applications, and simplifies customers accelerate the use of ATI Stream on different platforms.

Utility analysis of the performance ATI Stream Profiler makes it easy for developers using Microsoft Visual Studio, ATI Stream-control applications and identify bottlenecks in their performance. Easy identification of bottlenecks in the code enables developers to quickly optimize and provide users with their applications.