AMD has announced that it has delivered new optimizations for the graphics processing pipeline in order to increase performance in the new version of the Adobe Photoshop, the Photoshop CC. With both OpenCL and OpenGL standards supported, the new Adobe Photoshop CC can use compute and graphics processing capabilities of AMD's FirePro professional graphics cards, Radeon graphics cards as well as AMD A-Series APUs, in order to bring much better performance in some of the filters, transformations and other elements of the Photoshop CC.


Adobe's latest Photoshop CC uses OpenCL for its Blur Gallery as well as Smart Sharpen filters which allowed AMD's latest graphics technology to bring an improvement in performance of up to 11 times when compared to non-OpenCL implementations. As far as the OpenGL is concerned, the new Photoshop CC use it for Perspective Warp as well as 3D Printing options.

"Compute performance is essential to effective creative workflows," said Steve Belt, corporate vice president, Strategic Alliances & Platform Enablement, AMD. "An efficient, speedy process is often the difference between successfully capturing inspiration and seeing flashes of brilliance ebb away. That is the real essence of what the AMD-Adobe collaboration achieves. Together we continually find ways to successfully tap open standards in order to deliver the highest levels of performance for the most sophisticated new tools like those unveiled today in Photoshop CC."

"We rely on OpenCL and OpenGL technologies to provide our customers superior performance and to take full advantage of all the power their hardware provides," said Pam Clark, director of product management at Adobe. "Working with AMD, we can leverage open standards to deliver the fastest and best experience for our Photoshop customers."

Source: AMD.com.