Does anyone know if it will soon be possible to use the AMD cards to render smoke and fire simulations? - as GPU rendering is much faster for me than CPU.
I am trying to render a few sequences of a spacecraft on a launchpad, with smoke coming from the engine - and using the GPU would be great. Without the smoke, I am getting a render at 1920x1080 in about 2mins [per frame] - whereas WITH the smoke, using the CPU i am getting a 1280x720 render in about 8-9mins [per frame].
It seems only Nvidia CUDA cards are supported. Either I buy a new card [!!!] or wait for blender to support AMDs.
Does anyone know if this is soon in the pipeline? And if soon, any idea how soon?
[BTW - GPU rendering really opened my eyes to the great usability of Blender recently. I am/was a Cinema4d user 
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