2013 Mac Pro – D700 – AE reports GPU Total Memory at 2GB

[Graham Hutchins]

Yep, that’s what it is on my machine as well and that’s how it will stay until Adobe gets around to optimizing AE for the nMac Pro.

Cheers!

-Graham

OSX 10.8.4, Windows 7
Adobe CS6, CC
FC Studio 3
DaVinci Resolve 9
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 32 GB RAM

[Stuart Paciej]

I’m not sure if this answers your question but here’s an article on how to support unofficial cards by changing a text doc:

https://revyourmac.com/blog/cuda-enabler/

Also make sure your card’s driver is the most recent available.

[Graham Hutchins]

I can appreciate that you’re trying to help, but you do realize that the D700 is an AMD GPU and that CUDA is an nVidia technology?

Nothing in the article you linked is going to help in this case.

-Graham

OSX 10.9.1, Windows 7
Adobe CS6, CC
FC Studio 3
DaVinci Resolve 10
12-core 2.7GHz nMacPro, 64 GB RAM

[Rob Travis]

Thanks, at least it’s not just me! I suppose we won’t see an update until NAB.

[Brad Bussé]

Anyone know if Adobe has announced when they will have an update to AE that allows it to utilize the full VRAM of the d700, and the use of both GPUs?

[Michael Szalapski]

[Brad Bussé] “Anyone know if Adobe has announced when they will have an update to AE that allows it to utilize the full VRAM of the d700, and the use of both GPUs?”

AE barely uses even one GPU now. Other than third-party plugins and the (obsolete) ray-traced renderer, AE does precious little with it. I would love for AE to have a GPU-accelerated workflow because I have a nice big GPU that’s just raring for a chance to shine.

Adobe has hinted that the After Effects team is working on making AE faster across the board. So, to answer your question, probably in version 14 or 15. Seeing as version 13 just came out, this might take a while.

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[Brad Bussé]

But I’m assuming that if Ae is limiting dual d700s w/ 12gb of VRAM combined, then plugins like element 3d are limited to 1 gpu and 1.5 gb VRAM. It would be nice for Ae to at least properly see both gpus and all VRAM for the sake of plugins, even if Ae itself isn’t yet gpu or gpgpu optimized.