AMD is apparently interested in supporting open-source, professional graphics. For instance, the Blender Foundation is interviewing potential hires based on a potential deal with the CPU and graphics vendor. They have also open-sourced a bunch of technologies through their GPUOpen Initiative, such as the Radeon Rays (formerly FireRays) library.
This time, at IFA 2016, they released the Radeon ProRender, which used to be called FireRender. This is a plug-in for multiple 3D applications to render high-quality, raytraced images. The open-source, third-party renderer is currently available for 3D Studio Max, in beta for Maya, Rhinoceros, and Solidworks, and coming soon for Blender. While Cycles is pretty good, the potential for cross-pollination is interesting for the future of open 3D development.
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Go AMD, give it all away!
Go AMD, give it all away!
And if you look at the RX
And if you look at the RX 480’s FP resources that Blender rendering for Ray Tracing acceleration on the GPU will use every bit of the FP/Flops on one or many RX 480’s and that is a great deal for low cost rendering. 2 RX 480’s(at around $500) have as much FP/Flops for rendering Rays/Ray interaction calculations as one GTX Titan(Pascal) at $1200! So that Radeon ProRender on Blender 3d will make for some really affordable animations with some RX 480s acting as a farm for GPU/Acceleration of Ray tracing/rendering on the GPU! Compared to high costs Xeon CPU’s and Nvidia’s higher cost graphics the RX 480 is a much better solution. A slight bit of overclocking on the RX 480 nets even more FP/Flops for the dollar!
Scott, will you be doing any Radeon ProRender testing on the RX 480 when the software/plugin is available. I’d love to see some benchmarks with Blender/ProRender and at least 2 RX 480s under a Linux OS build. I’m looking to build a rendering system running Linux with maybe a Bristol Ridge(If available outside of the OEM market) or Zen/AM4 based CPU and Polaris/RX 480s.
I don’t have any AMD GPUs
I don't have any AMD GPUs around here, and only one machine in general, unfortunately. That sort of testing would be done by Ryan and the others at the office.
Well once the gaming
Well once the gaming benchmarks are done and until the next round driver updates or more Vulkan/DX12 ready game titles need to be tested, can you at least get them to loan you one or two RX 480’s for some Blender 3d rendering tests when the new AMD open sourced software/middleware/dirvers are ready for testing with Radeon ProRender on Blender 3d, both Linux OS and Windows(7, 8.1) versions of Blender 3d/other graphics software.
Also when will there be any non OEM only Bristol Ridge/AM4 motherboards and retail channel BR APU SKUs for the home builder market? I’m also looking at getting a Bristol Ridge AM4 based APU to pair with some RX 480s for rendering with the ability to update to a Zen APU at a later time when Zen becomes available.
Non gaming benchmarks/3D graphics software benchmarks for AMD’s products are hard to come by and there really needs to be more Blender/Open Source related graphics software benchmarks done on AMD’s and Nvidia’s newest GPU SKUs.
hi I would be happy to help
hi I would be happy to help fix that. Please email me to roy.taylor@amd.com
best regards
Roy
This is awesome.. can’t wait
This is awesome.. can’t wait to test it out when it is available for Blender. My R9 290x will sure like to give it a go 🙂