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Adobe’s use of OpenCL/GL in CS6
While these are only Photoshop CS6 tests it certainly can indicate what’s going on in their other apps and how significant the GPU is to CS6.
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I saw this earlier. What I found interesting is the fact that PS is not using CUDA. Does this imply that Adobe is moving away from CUDA? Or just for PS?
Also, I didn’t understand why the Quadro 4000 performed well with Liquify but not with Iris Blur.
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At least in Premiere Pro they have stated that all of the ‘blurs’ are not yet supported with openCL backing. This means that it’s only CPU doing that. Just a guess…might be related.
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[Kevin Patrick] “I saw this earlier. What I found interesting is the fact that PS is not using CUDA. Does this imply that Adobe is moving away from CUDA? Or just for PS? “
This is just a wild guess, but of all the dedicated PS users I know (print/web designers, photogs, etc) they use an overwhelming amount of portable Macs in laptops/iMacs. Hardly ever do I see MacPros being used in any of the agencies I’ve been in lately. There might be one or two for special tasks including video, but day in/day out its an iMac or Mac laptop. Adobe might see this anecdote, too, I don’t know.
Jeremy
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PS uses cuda since CS5 or even CS4 i think. I can’t remember if it was cuda already, but I remember the change when I installed my now old quadro 4800, zooming and moving pictures became ultra smooth. Then cuda arrived to start taking care of effects too.
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[santiago marti] “PS uses cuda since CS5 or even CS4 i think.”
It wasn’t CUDA. Photoshop’s GPU acceleration has been based on OpenGL.
Walter Soyka
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Yes Walter, it wasn’t cuda natively, but some plug-ins, like beauty box from digital anarchy used cuda in previous PS versions.
Santiago Martí
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[Kevin Patrick] ” the fact that PS is not using CUDA. Does this imply that Adobe is moving away from CUDA? Or just for PS? “
I was at the NY Adobe road show yesterday. The head of the CS6 hardware team was there and he made it clear that while Adobe is looking to support OpenCL/GL for Mac systems, his/their preference is for CUDA because as he said “I’m all about the speed and CUDA is much faster.”
Herb Sevush
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It’s good to hear Adobe working on support for Mac users.
Did they say whether the OpenCL/GL work was just being targeted for PS or are they planning on adding Premiere Pro to this support?
Or did I miss somewhere that CS6 PR is already adding OpenCL/GL? I have a Quadro 4000 along side a 5770, but I didn’t check to see if PR recognized 5770.
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[Kevin Patrick] “Did they say whether the OpenCL/GL work was just being targeted for PS or are they planning on adding Premiere Pro to this support? “
PPro 6 utilizes OpenCL on a specific list of cards. This was done primarily for the MBP customers. There is a hack to get it to work on many other cards as well.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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