Do Nexus 5, Nexus7 and Nexus10 device on the market directly support RenderScript GPU compute?

Question

Running renderscript code on GPU seems to require some "extra" effort than writing high renderscript quality code.

Though People from Google demonstrated that Nexus 7 could do GPU compute by renderscript (at 25:50 in the video https://www.uplinq.com/schedule/renderscript-and-opengl-es-30-new-technologies-adreno-gpu), and PowerVR said its GPU would support Renderscript GPU compute (http://withimagination.imgtec.com/index.php/powervr/running-renderscript-efficiently-with-powervr-gpus-on-android). But seems to enable renderscript GPU compute, new GPU driver is always required. Or else only CPU will be used.

Since I don't have budget to buy Nexus5, 7, 10 and try them out, I'd like to ask if those devices on the market directly support renderscript GPU compute.

Other than Nexus, is there any other device on the market directly supports this? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Nexus 4, 5, 7 (2013 model only, not the original one), and 10 all support GPU compute for RenderScript. At the current point in time, every Nexus device sold in the Play Store has GPU-accelerated RenderScript. Nexus is the fastest and easiest way to get the latest features of Android, but other Qualcomm Adreno devices and Samsung Exynos5-based devices will also be able to use these GPU compute drivers for RS. Already today, the Galaxy S4 (Exynos-5 based version) has a native RS GPU driver, although the non-Exynos version does not.