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Any early thoughts on Premiere running on the new MAC PRO?
With no Nvidia, thus no Mercury, does anybody see this as something to be concerned about? Are they just looking out for FCPX users and not necessarily Adobe users?
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Mercury with GPU should work through OpenCL like the other ATI cards available now.
It looks like a photon torpedo tube / spock’s coffin from Star Trek II.
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In Premiere it helps, but I doubt the FirePro accelerates Ray Traced rendering as much as CUDA.
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Not impressed. I have to get an external expansion chassis for my video capture card, my CUDA card, and for my SAS card? And I’m going to either have to hope that my capture card and SAS card work over Thunderbolt or get firmware upgrades OR I’m going to have to drop several thousands of dollars repurchasing all of that stuff? No thanks. I’ve been on the fence about going Windows next workstation refresh, and I think this just pushed me firmly in that direction, I can use all my existing PCIe accessories saving me quite a bit of money, and all the software I use is platform agnostic so I really don’t lose anything other than easy access to writing ProRes, which isn’t a huge loss.
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[Jeff Meyer] “In Premiere it helps, but I doubt the FirePro accelerates Ray Traced rendering as much as CUDA.”
Only NVIDIA GPUs provide acceleration for ray-traced 3D compositions.
Kevin Monahan
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So is Ray Tracing the only major benefit with CUDA?
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Premiere Pro supports OpenCL for these cards. We also support Dual GPU rendering in CC.
Cheers
Dave
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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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[Jeff Breuer] “So is Ray Tracing the only major benefit with CUDA?”
Basically, yes. Here’s a doc which explains this in detail: GPU (CUDA, OpenGL) features in After Effects CS6 and later:https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/05/gpu-cuda-opengl-features-in-after-effects-cs6.html
Kevin Monahan
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Leo Hans
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1. It looks like the power button is on the ‘Back’ of the computer. If you were to put this in a rack or even on your desk, you would have to reach around the back to turn on the computer. In some environments this might be difficult to do.
2. Graphics. Right now the graphics on the machine are pretty awesome, but in 1 or 2 years they will probably be obsolete. If the GPU’s are soldered on, we’re pretty much screwed on updating. The only thing that has kept my 2008 Mac Pro alive, is that I’ve been able to update the graphics card and hard drive to SSD. The new Mac Pro seems like it would be stuck in time.
3. Memory. Looks like there are only 4 memory slots. This may not be a big deal if it takes 16GB or 32GB memory modules, but I’m not even sure those exist.
Greg Jones
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Hey Dave (or anybody!),
Can you clarify this for the non-tekkies?
OpenCL vs. OpenGL vs. CUDA vs. Dual GPU processing?
Basically, what does the new MacPro mean for Premiere and AE users, vs. what we are doing with nice NVIDIA cards?
THANKSSS!!!!!!!!
-Tom
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