HIP Newton

GPU Implementation of Newton Fractal Generator with Benchmarking using AMD HIP SDK.

Computes for the Newton fractal in the complex plane bounded by the rectangular corners (-2.5, -2.5) to (2.5, 2.5).

Usage

To use:

[Command Prompt] HIPNewton.exe [WIDTH] [HEIGHT]

or

[Command Prompt] HIPNewton.exe [N]

Sample Run

Device: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Estimated GPU RAM requirements: 4294967296 bytes
Total GPU RAM: 17163091968 bytes
Program GPU RAM limit: 8589934592 bytes
Size of int: 4 bytes

generating newton set using GPU ...
GPU elapsed time: 1442.35 ms
generating newton set using CPU ...
CPU elapsed time: 51463.9 ms

35.6807x speedup, diff: 2

Sample output (converted from PGM and PPM to PNG)

RGB (2048 x 2048)

Gray (2048 x 2048)

To Do

• Benchmarks
• PNG Image Output
• User defined parameters
• Implement other fractal generators