Which OS to choose for the GPU station?

Question

linux

Hello.
Need advice on choosing an OS for a workstation that will deal with GPU computing (several amd cards).
Is there a difference between windows 7/8/10? Is there a difference between windows and linux in this regard? Is there a difference between windows and windows server?
Actually, I myself will answer for a start. From what I've read, the difference, if any, is minimal. But half of the sources are ~2012, and during this time a lot could change. Is it true that there is no difference? I would love to hear from smart people.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Starting from Win8, if I don't confuse anything, GPUs become visible through WinAPI, but I haven't looked at these functions myself, how much more convenient/better OpenCL they are, I don't know. The second important point, which I strongly advise you to pay attention to, is the availability of a suitable debugger, including for GPU cores. Well, in terms of performance, you can spend a day installing different OSes and compare performance on the same cores.

Answer 2

I think that there is no difference between 7/8/10 (only 8.1+/64 bit, I would say more securely). But in linux it probably is, because. if it's not Ubuntu/Red Hat/64bit, you need to build the drivers somehow (I think so, and update them somehow). There is probably no difference between Win and Win Server. As a hobby, I write raytracer, try OpenGL 4.3+ Compute Shader, OpenMP, OpenCL with NVidia and AMD cards, use Win10/64 bit, it's convenient.