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Since last year, Adobe Premiere Pro has supported OpenCL acceleration on Mac computers. Now, Adobe and AMD have announced that they've brought OpenCL acceleration to the Windows version of the video editing suite.
This time, AMD says all of its A-series APUs are supported—as are Radeon and FirePro graphics cards. The OpenCL acceleration purportedly enables "real-time edits, application of dozens of effects, support for the new Lumetri deep color engine and multi-stream and mixed format accelerated workflows with AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology." Video formats up to 4K Ultra HD are supported.
The performance improvements are, of course, substantial. On an A10-6800K processor with integrated graphics, AMD says OpenCL acceleration yields a 4.3x speedup when one applies a three-way color corrector filter to a 1080p video and exports that video to iDevice format. The quoted processing times are 46.6 seconds with OpenCL enabled and 246.1 seconds without.
Even greater improvements are in store for users of AMD's FirePro professional graphics cards. AMD outlines some examples in this blog post. By the looks of it, FirePro GPUs don't just speed things up over plain-old software processing; they're also quite a bit faster than Nvidia's competing Quadro GPUs. AMD says it's "kicking the butt" of the Quadro K4000 and K5000 in particular.
So, when can you lay your hands on the OpenCL-infused Premiere Pro for Windows? AMD isn't saying, but it mentions that testing was conducted on "a pre-release version of the next Adobe Premiere Pro." Given that Adobe releases new versions of Premiere Pro roughly every year around April or May, I'd expect the new OpenCL goodness to show up in Premiere Pro CS7 some time soon.
 
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Earlier today Adobe revealed some of its next generation professional video and audio products, including the next version of Adobe® Premiere Pro. Basically Adobe is giving users a sneak peek at the new features coming to the next versions of its software. And we’ve decided to give you a sneak peek too, providing a look at how the next version of Premiere Pro performs when accelerated by AMD FirePro™ 3D workstation graphics and OpenCL™ versus Nvidia Quadro workstation graphics and CUDA.
Before I jump into an explanation of how we measured performance, I want to take a step back. The whole idea of enabling GPU acceleration with OpenCL in the next version of Adobe Premiere Pro is to enable real-time workflows. Users can add effects and see high quality results in real-time. With GPU acceleration, users don’t have to render and wait to see results.
Because it’s difficult to quantify real-time performance, we created and rendered files into memory so we can compare the differences. This allowed us to see the performance differences between OpenCL and CUDA GPU acceleration performance. So we applied several effects (filters), including many effects from Adobe’s Lumetri™ Deep Color Engine, and measured the time to render the effects In and Out. In Premiere Pro, users can mark In and Out points to define a portion of video sequence they plan to render in the preview window. The effects (filters) we tested include:
  • ProcAmp
  • Sharpen
  • Color Balance (RGB)
  • RGB Color Corrector
  • Lumetri – Compression 1
  • Lumetri – Cinematic 1
  • Lumetri – Sepia
  • Lumetri – B&W Yellow Filter
  • Lumetri – Maxiumum Desaturation
  • Lumetri – Back in the Day
  • Lumetri – Dreams 2
  • Lumetri – Duo-toning
  • Lumetri – Warm Overall
These effects are designed to help users craft the perfect look for every project. These effects enable high quality adjustments to video footage in real-time, including color matching, adjustments to compensate for gamma irregularities and color shifts, color layering, primary and secondary color correction, and more.
Our first test looked at the next version of Premiere Pro running on a CPU only. We compared the CPU-only render in/out times to the render in/out times when GPU accelerated in OpenCL by AMD’s latest AMD FirePro™ workstation graphics cards, built on the Graphics Core Next architecture. As expected the GPU accelerated render times are significantly lower than CPU only processing. With AMD FirePro™ 3D workstation graphics and OpenCL acceleration, the next version of Adobe Premiere Pro runs up to six times as fast. (1)

Next we took a look at the next version of Adobe Premiere Pro with CUDA-based GPU acceleration provided by Nvidia Quadro 3D workstation graphics cards. What we found is that AMD FirePro™ and OpenCL-based GPU acceleration is faster across the board – up to 27%. (2)

Last but not least, we took a look at GPU utilization for AMD FirePro™ and Nvidia Quadro 3D workstation graphics when running the next version of Adobe Premiere Pro. When GPU accelerated by OpenCL and AMD FirePro™ graphics cards, GPU utilization is up to 28% more efficient than the competing cards. (3)

While this performance testing is conducted on a pre-release version of the next Adobe Premiere Pro, we’re really pleased with the results. As with all of the professional applications we support, we’ll continue to make driver optimizations for Adobe Premiere Pro that can only help to improve the overall user experience and application performance. So if you’re considering a GPU upgrade as part of your transition to the next version of Adobe Premiere Pro, definitely consider taking a look at AMD FirePro™ 3D workstation graphics cards.
At NAB 2013 in Las Vegas next week (April 8-11, 2013), Adobe plans to showcase the next version of Premiere Pro in its booth (#SL3910) running on AMD FirePro™ graphics cards. Be sure to stop by and check it out if you are at the show.
To learn more about the creative collaboration between AMD professional graphics and Adobe, please visit www.fireprographics.com/adobe

Theresa Chavez is a Product Marketing Manager, Professional Graphics, at AMD. Her postings are her own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites, and references to third party trademarks, are provided for convenience and illustrative purposes only. Unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links, and no third party endorsement of AMD or any of its products is implied.

1 – Testing configuration includes AMD FirePro™ W9000, W8000, W7000 and W5000 graphics cards, Adobe Premiere CS Next (pre-release version), 4K TIFF 24-bit sequence content, Microsoft Windows® 7 64-bit, Intel Xeon E5530 @ 2.40 GHZ, 12GB system memory, and AMD driver version 12.102. Software only at 1021 seconds vs W9000 at 170 seconds. FP-80
2 – Testing configuration includes AMD FirePro™ W9000, W8000, W7000 and W5000 graphics cards (AMD driver version 12.102 ) compared to Nvidia Quadro K5000, K4000 and K2000 graphics cards (Nvidia driver version 311.35) running Adobe Premiere CS Next (pre-release version), 4K TIFF 24-bit sequence content, Microsoft Windows® 7 64-bit, Intel Xeon E5530 @ 2.40 GHZ, and 12GB system memory. K2000 at 262 seconds vs W5000 at 207 seconds. FP-81
3 – Testing configuration includes AMD FirePro™ W9000, W8000, W7000 and W5000 graphics cards (AMD driver version 12.102 ) compared to Nvidia Quadro K5000, K4000 and K2000 graphics cards (Nvidia driver version 311.35) running Adobe Premiere CS Next (pre-release version), 4K TIFF 24-bit sequence content, Microsoft Windows® 7 64-bit, Intel Xeon E5530 @ 2.40 GHZ, and 12GB system memory. K2000 at 46% GPU load vsW5000 at 36% GPU load. FP-82
 
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I like the spell check lines, but it wasn't as if those images looked professional in the first place.
 
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BallaTheFeared said:
It does with the latest drivers. (edit: opencl that is)

This is all old news anyways, AMD failed at GPU workstation penetration with GCN.
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For mobile use, e.g. laptops, functional OpenCL on AMD vs Intel might be interesting if you have a need or use for mobile OpenCL applications, so it's an interesting area.
Of course you won't necessarily be doing the heavy lifting on a laptop, but might be good for people on the road.
 
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For mobile use, e.g. laptops, functional OpenCL on AMD vs Intel might be interesting if you have a need or use for mobile OpenCL applications, so it's an interesting area.
Of course you won't necessarily be doing the heavy lifting on a laptop, but might be good for people on the road.
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Also good for people that down own alot of PCs, like a laptop & a desktop PC.
Where any speed up (6x or not) is good.
 
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Olikan said:
Q4 2012 Segment results

Record revenue in workstation graphics
:colbert:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amd-reports-2012-fourth-quarter-and-annual-results-2013-01-22
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Where? I don't see anything about record revenue.

Here are the "highlights"..

-- AMD revenue $5.42 billion, down 17 percent year-over-year
-- Gross margin 23 percent, non-GAAP(1) gross margin 41 percent
-- Operating loss of $1.06 billion, net loss of $1.18 billion, loss per
share $1.60
-- Non-GAAP(1) operating income of $45 million, net loss of $114 million,
loss per share $0.16
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-- Full-year revenue increased 7.1 percent to a record $4.28 billion
-- Quarterly revenue decreased 8.1 percent sequentially to $1.11 billion;
year on year, revenue was up 16.1 percent
-- Quarterly GAAP diluted EPS of $0.28, off from $0.33 in Q3; non-GAAP
diluted EPS of $0.35, off from $0.39 in Q3
-- Quarterly GAAP gross margin of 52.9 percent; non-GAAP gross margin of
53.2 percent
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