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I've a Lenovo G50 series laptop with AMD A8-6410 @2Ghz, 8 GB RAM with a R5 230M and Radeon HD 8550M cards inside.

In Windows 10 is it possible to run a CLI based program ( ffmpeg for video compression to be specific ) using all the cores of the CPU and GPU or say 2 instances of it in separate processors to speed up / improve performance?

If so how?

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daddyodevil
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It is possible to use GPU as an additional computing resource, but this option is not available to the end user, it is an option for a developer. So as an end user you cannot tell a program of your choice to use your GPU, it is a developer's job to enable it.

For AMD it is called OpenCL, see following links:

http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/

https://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2015-03-16/how-to-install-opencl-on-windows/

As a user you can run OpenCL program but you cannot force any normal non-OpenCL app to behave as OpenCL app, it is not possible.

Here is a list of OpenCL enabled AMD products:

http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/system-requirements-driver-compatibility/

Vojtěch Dohnal
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