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Best gfx card for certain CS6 apps
Nico Jones
June 10, 2013 at 11:04 amHi 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 essentialOh… 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
Todd Kopriva
June 10, 2013 at 2:20 pmSee the benchmark results:
benchmark results for Premiere Pro:
https://ppbm5.com/DB-PPBM5-2.phpbenchmark results for After Effects:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/5270464Note how well the GTX 6xx and 5xx cards do in those results.
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June 10, 2013 at 3:01 pmCool, 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?
Nico Jones
June 10, 2013 at 4:12 pmOk…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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