Adobe Premiere CS6 & ATI 290X cards works with OpenCL & Mercury Engine ?

[Tim Kolb]

CS6 Mercury GPU acceleration only works with two OpenCL cards…pretty much unique to MacBook Pros.

CC opens up general GPU compatibility (CUDA and OpenCL) based on minimum specs.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tenchi Muyo]

Thanks for the answer! 🙂

Is it possible to use CUDA (for the Mercury Egine) with Nvidia’s next gen Maxwell gpu’s ?
(for my titan its only possible with a little tool).

Can i expect a difference using a Titan classic vs. Titan black edition ?

Or would the have the “same speed” ?

[Tim Kolb]

Keep in mind that a lot of what the GPU does is downstream for the CPU, which is downstream from the harddrives, etc…

If the harddrives are maxed out feeding data to the CPU, then the CPU may not be at full speed as it’s “waiting” for data occasionally… If the drives are working with ease because of smaller files that are compressed more aggressively, you CPU may be maxed…in either case, the GPU can only process what comes to it.

System balance is key. Many users want to add a lot of GPU power, then they comment that the larger card was some sort of sham because their system didn’t gain speed, when usually the bottleneck is upstream from the GPU, so adding more just adds more power the system can’t use. Once a system truly has the drive storage, CPU power, and RAM to function comfortably, a solid GPU makes a considerable difference.

One you get into Titan cards, I think some of the subtle configuration differences would only possibly be noticed when working with high-stress workflows like 4K/5K RED raw or something of that nature in PPro CC.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tenchi Muyo]

I think the system is ok for the job:

4960X @4Ghz, Asus REIV, 64GB DDR3-1600 CL9, 2x Samsung 512GB Pro and 4x Western Digital Velociraptor HDD’s.
And of course the Titan (i own a 3-way-SLI and think about to replace it with a two-way-SLI with the Blacks).

I know SLI is not supported in CS6 (its only for gaming ^^)

[Ericbowen]

AE GPU acceleration is Ray Tracer which is Nvidia only. However AE only has certain functions that even use the Ray Tracer. Cuda works better with Adobe than Open CL does right now so the Titan card would be the better option versus the AMD here. Unfortunately generic benchmarks don’t give any accurate picture to GPU acceleration since implementations are specific to the application designers along with performance refinements.

Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
support@adkvideoediting.com

[Tenchi Muyo]

Thanks for your post Eric!

So i use NV instead of Ati, because i won’t make a step into the CC.
(I’am a home user no comercial).