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Best affordable Nvidia graphics card for AE CS6 and above
Hey all,
I’m planning to upgrade to After Effects CS6 / CC and upgrade my graphics card.For the past 3 years I’ve being using AE CS5 + Nvidia GTS 250, and all in all I was happy with the workflow and speed.
So basically, I’ve started looking into new graphic cards and I’d like one that is supported / recommended by Adobe (https://www.adobe.com/il_en/products/aftereffects/tech-specs.html), but yet I still want to stay withing a resonalble budget of +/- $500.
I’d be really happy to hear which card you guys recommend within this budget.. Obviously I’d like it to be as powerful as possible considering CC has cinema 4D Lite which I assume needs quite a lot of ‘power’.
Thanks a lot! Any help much appreciated.
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Any of the GTX 5xx and 6xx cards are a good choice for performance/price.
See Danny Princz’s benchmark test results here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AuE_AZZfskx3dHotTzVGamhiUkIySTUteGlzeG9xMEE———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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Many thanks for your help Todd.
I had a look at the benchmark test (awesome work there by Danny Princz), and had a difficulty at deciding which parameter is most important. What I would think is that it all comes down to render time. The faster the render time is, the better the graphic card is. But since I’m not really a technical guy, I’m not sure if that assumption is correct?
Also, this might be a dumb question, but in the Value (price vs performance) tab, do I want the number to be high or low? i.e. is 1.38 better than 0.96?
My humble conclusion based on the benchmark tests is that for a price lower than $500, the GTX670 is one of the best options.
I’d love to hear your opinion on this!
It’s probably also important to note that I’m using Windows 7 64bit, i7 920 @2.67 GHZ, 12GB ram.Professional Multimedia Solutions:
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Hmm actually.. I don’t see the GTX 670 on the recommended list of Adobe here..
Is it still ok? Or will I be limited in some way?
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The GTX 670 is listed on the system requirements page here:
https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/tech-specs.htmlThe page that you linked to is stale and needs to be fixed.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
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Great, thanks Tod!
So just to sum up this post, does anyone have experience with the gtx 670? Should I buy it or is there a better option for approx. the same price of $399?
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The 670GTX or 770GTX would be the 2 options. The 770GTX is not on the supported list yet I believe but likely will be soon. I would however look at 24GB of ram before investing to much in the GPU.
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> The 770GTX is not on the supported list yet I believe but likely will be soon.
Have you been peeking at my list of cards to test? 😉
> I would however look at 24GB of ram before investing to much in the GPU.
That is excellent advice.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Thanks for your advice Eric.
I think I’ll go ahead and purchase the GTX 670, and look into getting 24GB of ram.Appreciate your help guys, thanks!
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Why 24GB of ram are so important ?
If I create 3D animation and HD after effects, the video card will be as much important.
You mean a good video card with 8 or 16 gb ram would be a waste ?
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[sylvain hugues] “Why 24GB of ram are so important ?
If I create 3D animation and HD after effects, the video card will be as much important.
You mean a good video card with 8 or 16 gb ram would be a waste ?”The GPU does very little for After Effects, see here [link]
RAM and processor power are much more important.
For the most part, the GPU only matters in After Effects if you’re using the (obsolete) ray-traced 3d renderer or certain third-party plugins (like Element 3D from Video Copilot). And, if you are using third-party plugins, AE’s tested GPU list doesn’t matter (since it’s only testing to work with the ray-traced renderer). You should just focus on what the third-party plugin recommends.
Now, the GPU does matter very much for Premiere. So, if you use Premiere, look at Premiere’s requirements, any third-party plugin requirements, and requirements for any other software you might run on your system and you’ll be fine for AE too.
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