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The Radeon Pro Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10 Revealed!

AMD just unveiled their next major professional software update for developers, Radeon Pro Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10 for Radeon Pro WX 9100 and Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics cards, in addition to an  array of new features and improved performance for Radeon ProRender, AMD’s powerful physically-based rendering engine.

 

 

The Radeon Pro Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10

The Radeon Pro Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10 builds upon the massive feature set previewed this past summer, providing professionals with new industry-leading stability, performance and feature improvements, including:

  • Optimization of game development workflows. The new, optional “Driver Options” in Radeon Pro Software 17.10 lets developers swap between “Radeon Pro Software” and the latest “Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition for Radeon Pro” driver with Radeon WX 9100 and Vega Frontier Edition cards.
  • Strengthened security against malware. Radeon WX 9100 and Vega Frontier Edition cards have a dedicated AMD Secure Processor built into the silicon, which works in tandem with Radeon Pro Software and Microsoft Device Guard to thwart malicious attacks, while securing graphics bound IP at the same time.
  • Radeon Pro ReLive, refined. Updates include higher maximum recording bitrate (up to 100 Mbps), camera transparency, improved notifications and enhanced audio controls.

 

Improved Radeon ProRender

AMD is also introducing enhancements to Radeon ProRender, providing more responsive interactive rendering and enabling artists to get their work done sooner. The updated Radeon ProRender plug-in for Blender, provides up to 29 percent faster rendering than the previous version, the 3ds Max plug-in up to 35 percent, the Maya plug-in up to 28 percent, and the SOLIDWORKS add-in up to 14 percent.

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New features include:

  • Shadow Catcher material, which allows developers to collect shadows and reflections from rendered objects for compositing objects to IBL (Image-Based Lighting) environments or backplate images.
  • IES lighting and the ability to load the IES file-format, letting content creators use the exact scattering and fall-offs of real-world lighting
  • Simplified sampling for ProRender makes sampling easier for all plug-ins and add-ins. Developers no longer need to set AA sampling, as now all rendering samples are used for anti-aliasing.

Radeon ProRender now also offers open-source availability for developers. In addition, ProRender is integrated into the new MAXON Cinema 4D Release 19 (R19), with planned integration for Foundry’s Modo in 2018.

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The Radeon Technologies Group’s First Year Achievements

On September 9, 2015, AMD spliced off their Radeon graphics team into a separate Radeon Technologies Group. They also promoted Raja Koduri to Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of the new Radeon Technologies Group, reporting directly to AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su.

It has now been a year since Raja Koduri took the helm of the newly-formed Radeon Technologies Group. Chris Hook, Senior Director of Global Marketing and Public Relations, Radeon Technologies Group, gave us a run-down of what the Radeon Technologies Group accomplished in just 12 months.

Then Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group, gave us a 40 minute Q&A session – a rare opportunity as you can imagine. Check out the full Q&A session below!

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The First Year Of The Radeon Technologies Group

Right after its formation, the Radeon Technologies Group dove straight into the melee, delivering the Radeon Software Crimson Edition in November 2015, and then launching GPUOpen in December 2015.

 

Then in March 2016, they released their first Vulkan-capable driver. They followed that up with the launch of the AMD Radeon Pro Duo graphics card.

Their efforts culminated in the AMD Polaris launch during Computex 2016.

A month later, they launched the AMD Radeon Pro family, featuring the Radeon Pro WX series and the Radeon Pro SSG.

Finally, AMD announced in August that the AMD FreeSync technology is now available in just over 100 gaming monitors.

Next Page > The Radeon Technologies Group First Anniversary Presentation Slides

 

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Here are the presentation slides used by Chris Hook, Senior Director of Global Marketing and Public Relations, Radeon Technologies Group, during his presentation :

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AMD Radeon Pro WX & Radeon Solid State Graphics Launched!

AMD has revealed new, industry changing graphics technologies and partnerships that will shape the CG community and to the rest of the world for years to come at its “Capsaicin Siggraph” press conference and webcast, including new professional-class Radeon products to power the burgeoning immersive content creation era.

 

New Radeon Pro WX Series

AMD today unveils powerful new solutions to address modern content creation and engineering: the new Radeon Pro WX Series of professional graphics cards, which harness the award-winning Polaris architecture and is designed to deliver exceptional capabilities for the immersive computing era.

Radeon Pro solutions and the new Radeon Pro WX Series of professional graphics cards represent a fundamentally different approach for professionals rooted in a commitment to open, non-proprietary software and performant, feature-rich hardware that empowers people to create the “art of the impossible”.

The new Radeon Pro WX series graphics cards (Price Check) deliver on the promise of this new era of creation, are optimized for open source software, and are designed for creative professionals and those pushing the boundaries of science, technology and engineering.

Radeon Pro WX Series professional graphics cards are designed to address specific demands of the modern content creation era:

  • Radeon Pro WX 7100 GPU (Price Check) is capable of handling demanding design engineering and media and entertainment workflows and is AMD’s most affordable workstation solution for professional VR content creation.
  • Radeon Pro WX 5100 GPU (Price Check) is the ideal solution for product development, powered by the impending game-engine revolution in design visualization.
  • Radeon Pro WX 4100 GPU (Price Check) provides great performance in a half-height design, finally bringing mid-range application performance demanded by CAD professionals to small form factor (SFF) workstations

 

AMD formally launches ProRender and moves to GPUOpen

As part of GPUOpen, Radeon ProRender (formerly previewed as AMD FireRender) enables creators to bring ideas to life through high-performance applications and workflows enhanced by photorealistic rendering.

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GPUOpen is an AMD initiative designed to assist developers in creating ground-breaking games, professional graphics applications and GPU computing applications with much greater performance and lifelike experiences, at no cost and using open development tools and software.

Unlike other renderers, Radeon ProRender can simultaneously use and balance the compute capabilities of multiple GPUs and CPUs – on the same system, at the same time – and deliver state-of-the-art GPU acceleration to produce rapid, accurate results.

Radeon ProRender plugins are available today for many popular 3D content creation applications, including Autodesk 3ds Max, SOLIDWORKS by Dassault Systèmes and Rhino, with Autodesk Maya coming soon. Radeon ProRender works across Windows, OS X and Linux, and supports AMD GPUs, CPUs and APUs as well as those of other vendors.

 

Radeon Solid State Graphics Technology set to transform workstation PC architecture

Starting at a full terabyte of Radeon Solid State Graphics (SSG), this innovative Radeon Pro technology will provide more than an order of magnitude greater memory capacity compared to existing GPU memory implementations, enabling vastly higher performance and ideal for the next wave of demanding use-case scenarios including real-time post-production of 8K video, high-resolution rendering, VR content creation, oil and gas exploration, computational engineering, medical imaging and life sciences.

During the world’s first demonstration of a Radeon Pro SSG solution, 8K raw video timeline scrubbing was accelerated from 17 frames per second to a stunning 90+ frames per second.

Applications for developer kits are now being accepted and full availability is planned for 2017.

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