Best gfx card for certain CS6 apps

[Nico Jones]

Hi guys,

I know this manner of thing is discussed ad infinitum, but everyone’s got their own specific setup and needs, so it’s worth getting right…right??

I’m running a Mac Pro, using a lot of After effects and Premiere, and am thinking of getting a GFX card to boost performance the following parts of my workflow.

– Raytracing in AE
– Invigorator plugin in AE
– VCP Element plugin in AE
– The Cinema4D functionality when it becomes active in AE
– Cinema 4D itself
– Premiere, though not essential

Oh… and I still need to be able to run a non-thunderbolt apple cinema display, and a straight Asus monitor via an HMDI cable.

Does such a solution exist? Budget cap at around £1300.

Many thanks in advance!

Mac Pro specs – 2×2.66 GHz 6-core Xeon, 32GB133MHz DDR3 ram. OSX 10.8.3

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[Todd Kopriva]

See the benchmark results:

benchmark results for Premiere Pro:
https://ppbm5.com/DB-PPBM5-2.php

benchmark results for After Effects:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/5270464

Note how well the GTX 6xx and 5xx cards do in those results.

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

Cool, thanks for that, Todd…

Although having found another of your blog posts…seems that there’s only a couple of cards that will work for me anyway?

https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/aftereffects/tech-specs.html

Any plans to support the GTX 680 Mac Edition when it comes out?

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[Nico Jones]

Ok…found a relevant post from not so long ago that details which cards are supported and which aren’t.

So I suppose I should amend my question to…which is best for the stuff I mentioned -the GeForce GTX 285 or the Quadro 4000?

Thanks,

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