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by jcranmer 2042 days ago
oneAPI is not being run on top of OpenCL; it's being run on top of Level Zero. Although I think the CPU runtime is still using the OpenCL driver for the moment.
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That depends if you use the OpenCL SYCL backend or the Level Zero SYCL backend. The latter has only existed for a few months.

but yeah, I think the default backend switched to level zero recently, so strikethrough the last sentence of my comment - apparently nobody will focus on opencl as a oneAPI backend.