AMD FireRender is now the open-source Radeon ProRender
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The professional content creation software industry is dominated by Nvidia's CUDA libraries, and as a result, a large number of professional applications won't run on Radeon GPUs without some serious trickery. AMD has been trying to court the developers of these programs for some time with the GPUOpen initiative and its FireRender SDK. In further news from SIGGRAPH, AMD has dropped its "Fire" branding and renamed FireRender to Radeon ProRender.
For those who aren't already familiar-and we reckon that's most of you-Radeon ProRender is AMD's OpenCL photorealistic offline 3D renderer. Since it uses OpenCL, the renderer can run on CPUs, GPUs, or any combination thereof, although obviously ProRender is optimized for ...