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graphic cards for premiere pro
I have a Mac Pro (plenty of zoots under the hood) on which I have been editing Premiere Pro since last year. However, the graphic card on the Mac is not one which allows me to use the Mercury CUDA functionality. Yesterday, I called the place from which I bought my Mac and asked them about the Nvidia Quadra 4000. Yes, they said, that is a wonderful card. But why pay that much money for it when you can install the ATI Radeon 5870 which costs less and will work just as well. I thought only Nvidia cards worked for the Mac so I went to the Adobe website where I saw a list of Nvidia only cards. Does anyone out there know about this Radeon card? Does it work? Will it allow me to use the Mercury CUDA functionality in Premiere Pro? The Radeon costs about $450 and the Nvidia costs about $700 according to my web search. Thanks for whatever insight anyone might have.
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CUDAs are on nVidias only. Need an nVidia card to get max performance in Premiere Pro.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Integrator
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
I have been doing some reading and it seems like you can use the ATI Radeon card to get CUDA performance by adding it to the ‘open CL’ list. I’m a little fuzzy on the details. Could that be a work around that allows for this card to be used? If it is, would this card be just as good as using the Nvidia Quadra 4000?
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Here are a few facts:
– Can’t get CUDA performance on ATI cards.
– CUDA is an exclusive nVidia technology.From what I understand, CUDA is much faster than OpenCL for Adobe Premiere Pro GPU acceleration purposes.
On PPBM5 site, you won’t see a single ATI card in top 200 results.
See also:
– OpenCL and Premiere Pro CS6 (Adobe blog by Todd Kopriva)
– “OpenCL acceleration on Macbook Pro with Certified card is BAD”
– “Re: ATI 5770 and Premiere Pro CS6”Hope this helps.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Integrator
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
I just installed the Nividia GTX 570 from Macvidcards and it works wonderfully. You have to add it to the list of approved cards which is easy. CUDA makes a huge difference in real time performance and encoding.
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got a flashed GT285 from macvidcards additionally to my ATI 5770
ATI is for GUI with two monitors and nVidia for GPU only. Works fine with
Resolve (2k only) too. -
Recently bought a GTX680 for my mac pro.
Latest version of Mac OS supports it natively (no drivers needed) but you won’t get a bootscreen (if you get the flashed 5xx series for macvidcards you can get the boot screen).
Downloaded CUDA driver from Nvidia
Edited 2 text files (took 10 seconds total) to add the card name to supported cards list.
Boom: full CUDA support on Premiere and AE.
The 500 series is probably the most cost effective way and in fact I’ve seen some data that they’re even faster than the 600, but 600 more power efficient so I bought before I researched that. Either way you don’t need the Quadra4000 and will be faster than ATI.
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