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AMD or Nvidia?
I have to stick a new graphics card in our machine because it came with a Quadro 600 which works like something that rhymes with hit…. I was told it was coming with a FX 4000… Surprise! So I figure I’ve got a budget of $400 tops to rectify the situation, under $300 would be better. Wish I had more, that’s all I’ve got. About the only thing that I can find in that price range on the Nvidia side is the GTX 770. On the AMD side there is a whole slew of them including most of the Radeon HD 7000 series. Are there any comparisons between the two anywhere? Does anyone have experience with AMD products and PPro CC? I’ve used Nvidia products before so I’m fairly familiar with them but now that AMD is in the game at a much lower price point I need to know more than the corprate talking points and want to hear from real life users.
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The GTX 770 works great and much faster than similar priced FirePro or Quadro 4000. There is a 4GB version for around $400.
AMD has the new R9 cards but I haven’t seen any Premiere tests and they seem to be out of stock everywhere but they are faster than the nVidia cards dollar for dollar
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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To note:
The AMD Radeon R9 290 Series has been added to the OpenCL supported card list for Premiere Pro 7.2.1.
Peter Garaway
Adobe
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[Michael Mohr] “a Quadro 600 which works like something that rhymes with hit.”
Can you elaborate? 🙂
Try to enable Cuda acceleration on the 600 first. It’s got 1GB RAM which should be enough, other than that the specs are rather underwhelming and it may not pull its weight in Premiere – but at least it’s free – you already have it.
What machine is it? The GTX-770 is a good suggestion – yet may be an overkill where a $250 GTX-760 will be just fine, and you’d need to be sure the power supply can handle either.
— Alex Gerulaitis | Systems Engineer | DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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Thanks everyone for the reply’s. Alex, in answer to your question I’m using a Dell T5600. I’ve “enabled” the cuda on the card but it still is pretty herky jerky on play back when I have a couple layers. A video layer and 2 PS layers. I get a lot of yellow and very little green. AE is really hindered by it. I don’t think I have to worry about the power supply. I’ll look into the 760. I still haven’t heard anything regarding AMD Radeon HDs, only GTX cards. Are they that inferior?
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[Michael Mohr] “A video layer and 2 PS layers. I get a lot of yellow and very little green. AE is really hindered by it.”
AE? The only thing that’s GPU accelerated in AE is ray tracing. So a graphics card upgrade won’t do much unless it’s ray tracing that’s hindered.
[Michael Mohr] “I still haven’t heard anything regarding AMD Radeon HDs, only GTX cards. Are they that inferior?”
They aren’t, it’s just GPU acceleration in Premiere Pro is more optimized for the Cuda tech that’s only available with NVidia cards. AE ray tracing – NVidia only.
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CUDA performance is still greater than the Open CL performance. If you have the choice then get the Nvidia and Alex is right on the 760GTX.
Eric-ADK
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Thanks everyone for the responses. I’ll see what they can find for me on the Nvidia side. Have to use “approved vendors” you know… I was leaning on the CUDA side of things but just needed to see if the new tech hype was something to consider.
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