Comments on: AMD Fusion, or up to 8X More Performance for No Extra Cost

By: Rasmus Dahl-Sorensen

Rasmus Dahl-Sorensen — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:10:28 +0000

Please make a plugin for Sony Vegas Pro, too!!!

By: Christopher Diaz

Christopher Diaz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:31:18 +0000

Andrew, speaking on Stream, any word on when we might start seeing Physics enabled games for the AMD Platform?

While Phys x isn’t a huge player yet, seeing some HAVOK support on these new guys might be kind of nice.

By: Andrew Fox for Nigel

Andrew Fox for Nigel — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:37:52 +0000

Thank you for the comment and input. We are taking feedback on the Adobe Premiere Pro beta and will decide on final deployment after we evaluate that input. Our OpenCL activity continues apace, with an expected public beta of our unified CPU / GPU development environment coming in Q3. And yes, ATI Stream is our brand for AMD’s approach toward balancing workloads between GPU and CPU resources, including OpenCL.”

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:32:03 +0000

This is very exciting stuff. I’ve been anticipating it for a while. It’s also very clever from a marketing standpoint. AMD can use their technologies (for the mean time) to require an AMD CPU for a functioning Stream Accelerated Adobe Premiere CS4 work enviroment. It effectively hits the two major competitors in their respective weak spots. Albeit, in a small market.

The question is though, how long until we see a finalized product? I’ve been on the ATi/AMD GPGPU bandwagon for years and I’ve seen lots of tech announced then buried. Especially with OpenCL right around the corner… Is this going to be kept going? Or is this a neat marketing ploy…

When OpenCL finally becomes mature and work starts getting poured behind it, it’s going to be much harder to capitalize on the exclusivety of Stream. Hopefully though, OpenCL will allow AMD to reallocate resources from specialized GPGPU software development like this project to something else. After all, it will be the software vendors duty to write correct OpenCL code.

Has it been announced if the Stream title will still be held as AMD GPGPU initiative after OpenCL is widely used? Sure would be nice… Those other two companies stick their names on everything… “***** Inside” or “The Way it’s meant to be ******”. I’d get such a smirk if I saw an ATi Stream logo on the next version of the Sony Vegas splash screen.

By: Frantz

Frantz — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:05:33 +0000

@martin,

I don’t think this will happen.

On their way to global domination, Nvidia forgot about their most important customer and decided to court Intel instead. It’s like leaving your girlfriend to go after the next hottie and being turned down with no way back!!!

By: Nigel Dessau

Nigel Dessau — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:12:30 +0000

Well yes and no. We have updated the footnote toindicate the file size of 367 MB.

However regardless of size a reduction from 372.5s to 47.3s is still a huge improvement. Whether 47.3s is good compared to other systems or approaches does requires the file-size – thus provided.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:24:56 +0000

It is interesting, I hope AMD will join NVIDIA in their upcoming GPU conference.

By: Smith

Smith — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:21:14 +0000

It’s nice that this plug in works on regular Radeon cards and not just workstation cards.

By: LS

LS — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:24:16 +0000

But Apple’s Snow Leopard does not support OpenCL in Radeon 2000 & 3000 series. More Nvidia GPU are supported. It is very disappointed.

By: Frantz

Frantz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:49:30 +0000

“When installed, the plug-in encoded an H.264, 1440×1080i 29.97 frames-per-second, High Quality file in 47.3s; without the plug-in, Adobe Premiere Pro encoded the same file in 372.5s ”

What was the size of the input file?

With no input file size these numbers means absolutely nothing!!!

By: Bryan Bartow

Bryan Bartow — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:32:34 +0000

Don’t forget about the Mac. My MacPro with Radeon 4000 series card could use that power as well. I’m hoping with the advent of OpenCL in the next iteration of Mac OS X it will become a reality.