AE CC and GTX680 Mac Cuda Support

[Todd Kopriva]

Several cards have been added to the list of cards that After Effects will use for GPU acceleration of the ray-traced 3D renderer in the After Effects CC (12.1) update, coming in October.

See this page for details:
https://adobe.ly/AE_CC_12dot1_details

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Patrick Simon]

Hi Todd,

Thanks a lot for your feedback. I’m working in an advertising agency in Paris, and have a little question.

In the new whitelist, I see the GTX 680 MX but not the GTX 680.
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/09/after-effects-cc-12-1-whats-new-and-changed.html

We don’t have iMac but just Mac Pro at our agency, does the GTX 680 (the EVGA Mac Edition) works on AE CC?

Sorry, but my english is not very good, maybe I did not understand this article… (maybe the GTX 680 works on untested and unsupported mode, but works still?

Thanks a lot for your support

Patrick

[Todd Kopriva]

That page says that we’re still testing GPUs for After Effects CC (12.1). I have a Mac Edition GTX 680 on my desk right now, and it’s the next one that I’m testing.

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

Today, we released the After Effects CC (12.1) update, which is now available to all Creative Cloud members.

This update includes many GPUs added to the whitelist for CUDA acceleration.

For complete details, see this page.

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

680mx is approved, just in time for the newest mac gpu with twice the vram to come out? Possibly sometime in ’14 the newer card maybe officially supported?

Not to mention thanking Adobe for the latest CC update that doesn’t allow the user to even open AE. Way to go guys.

Lightwave or 3DS Max, here I come.

AE could be a pro app if Adobe wasn’t involved.

[Brian Chaffee]

Just did the update and AE CC won’t work. Have to wonder about you guys. You let updates go out that cause havoc and your only answers are, “Have you tried this, or that?”

Meanwhile it takes 6-months to test a gpu card that is built with the very technology you tout (CUDA) because you want to make sure of it’s compatibility?

I am grateful I do not understand your mentality.

[Rob Alexander]

AE isn’t recognising the GTX680 in my Mac Pro (it’s a custom build system and might be a flashed PC version of the EVGA), its identifier is NVIDIA GeForce GTX680. AE tells me that CUDA ray tracing is turned off for my card.

Do I need to edit the approved cards list or is it possible I need to update the drivers for the card.

Also Adobe Media Encoder reports it’s using OpenCL Mercury Engine acceleration but intuition tells me that I should expect it to use CUDA if that’s available?

I should add that I’m new to Adobe software having been a long time AVID and FCP user.

Thanks for the help.