AE CC and GTX680 Mac Cuda Support

[Todd Kopriva]

> I thought with CC you didn’t have to manually enable this any more.

You’re thinking of Premiere Pro.

That said, we’re going to follow their lead in the near future and allow you to use untested and unsupported cards that meet certain minimum requirements. Untested and unsupported will still mean just that—but you’ll be able to more easily take matters into your own hands and defy our recommendations with whatever card you want to try. We are aiming to make such a feature available later this year. No promises, but that is the target.

Also, the GTX 680MX is the next card that I, personally, am testing to add to the official white list. In fact, If I weren’t typing this to you, I’d be in the lab now working on this. 😉

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Greg Jones]

Thanks for the response! Looking forward to using all the CC apps. Also lookin forward to trying out the Cinema 4d back and forth in AE.

Greg Jones
D7,Inc.

[Scott Novasic]

Excellent Todd…. the Nvidia 680 mac edition was purchased by a TON of us mac AE pros to help keep our systems snappy enough.

I ‘manually’ activated it in CS6… not one issue. Im not a fan of manually doing anything so im nervous to try it again with CC… Its fair to allow us to use it at our own ‘bombing’ risk… to block us in any way would appear hostile..

us Mac AE users feel like step kids vs our windows AE users over the years performance wise. So im really glad to hear your hands on attempts…

I would modestly BEG…. LOL… you look at the 2 gb 680mx card in the 2012 iMac as well which I believe would be the other main machine pros turned too to buy time until the new mac pro is released.

Its plenty powerful enough and appears very closely related to the 680gtx the performance of the gtx 680 using sapphire plugs, Monsters gt, is AMAZING and stable in my use at 1080p work…. fyi….

SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
https://supernovavfx.com

[Zeno Costa]

Todd, this is welcoming news for After Effects users. A very significant step forward. Thanks for sharing this advanced news with the community here.

I know none of this is “official” yet, but any speculation on whether this update will also apply to a future AE CS 6 update?

Thanks again for this update!!

[Todd Kopriva]

No, this change will not apply to any CS6 updates.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Brian Chaffee]

Todd,

Back on July 21st, you mentioned you would be personally testing the GTX680MX, 2GB video card, with over 1500 CUDA cores (Quadro 4000 has only 448 cores) which resides inside the newest iMac.

How have your tests been going and when do you expect to add it to the ‘white list’ for After Effects? Will this include Premiere Pro as well? I am on the cloud using primarily CC versions of both.

Speaking with a representative at adobe, they informed me that the 680MX is a gaming card whereas the Quadro series is designed to handle the computations of AE, Maya, etc.

Brian

[Todd Kopriva]

> Speaking with a representative at adobe, they informed me that the 680MX is a gaming card whereas the Quadro series is designed to handle the computations of AE, Maya, etc.

Who? I need to follow up with anyone who is giving you bad information and suggesting that you not use GTX 6xx cards with After Effects.

Regarding when we might add the GTX 680MX to the white list: I’d estimate sometime in the next few months. We’re targeting a release in September, and I’m optimistic about adding this card and several others to the whitelist at that time.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Brian Chaffee]

Actually, by the csr’s routing, I ended up in India. I will watch for the card on the list.

Thanks.

Brian

[Jonathan Perkins]

Hi Todd,

Wondering whether you have returned from graphics-card land with any exciting updates for mac users… 🙂

[Todd Kopriva]

I’ve tested with the GTX 680MX and GTX 675MX (iMacs) and added those to the list of cards that the next version of After Effects CC will use for CUDA acceleration of the ray-traced 3D renderer. This update should be released in late September, if all goes according to plan.

I’m in the process of testing some other cards for that release, too.

Also, be sure to read my previous comments on this thread about us enabling the use of untested, unsupported GPUs. That feature is looking pretty good, and I have confidence in us being able to release that in late September, too.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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