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After Effects blocked from seeing the GPU
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I used AE to stabilize some footage last night.
I ran the HP Advisor GPU monitor. Even though AE should be seeing the GPU for other things and using the 600 + cores the operation was dog slow, the HP Advisor GPU monitor showed no activity above normal desktop activity levels.
Even rendering showed nothing above normal desktop activity.
Windows 10 resource monitor showed 54% CPU used for the stabilization analysis. I think it was more for the render.
Even though supposedly AE can use the K2200 for operations other than raytracing I don’t see it happening. 5 or six drivers have been used by now in the last 10 days. This is disgusting.
I cannot imagine anyone even buying this brand new card from me so I can recover my money.
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[Wallace Adrian D'Alessio] “I ran the HP Advisor GPU monitor. Even though AE should be seeing the GPU for other things and using the 600 + cores the operation was dog slow, the HP Advisor GPU monitor showed no activity above normal desktop activity levels.”
Ae currently uses the GPU for very little — basically, just drawing the UI. The latest release has added GPU acceleration for a three effects: Gaussian Blur, Lumetri Color, and Sharpen. Everything else is CPU-driven.
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The list of approved cards at Adobe.com and the list of approved cards at nVidia.com do not even match !
And the list of GTX cards that are approved are obsolete and probably take an order to existing stocks.
None of them can be found on the Staple’s site or Best Buy.Adrian D\’Alessio aka; Fluxstringer
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Then I have wasted a lot of money on GPUs believing 16 years of NVidia and Adobe marketing haven’t I.
The PCs giving the math co processing power for fast calculation of effects stacks are way out of my price range.
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I understand how frustrated you must be. The supported GPU list from Adobe is accurate, but there’s a sea of misinformation and bad assumptions from uninformed users out there. I get where it comes from. Ae is a graphics program — why the heck doesn’t it use the graphics processor?
I’m just trying to tell it like it is. I volunteer a lot of time here, a good deal of that helping folks from the Ae community pick out hardware. I have probably written hundreds of posts here detailing Ae’s use of the GPU, and the cost/benefit analysis of GeForce over Quadro. I wish you had seen some of those posts, or that I could have helped you better, before you purchased your card.
Quadros are really great GPUs — for other applications. 10-bit output support, double-precision floating point performance, driver support for CAD/CAM applications… the things that Quadros do well do not affect Ae render times. Hopefully, you can sell it to a user who would benefit better from it.
I think that in hindsight, Adobe building the ray-tracing renderer on NVIDIA’s OptiX technology was a bad decision. I take the fact that the latest release of Ae has new GPU-accelerated effects, and can use not just CUDA but also OpenCL and Metal, to be a promising change of direction.
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