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GeForce GTX680 and Maverick: Playing nice together?
I’ve just installed a new HD on a 2008 MacPro, with plans to start transitioning to PPCS6 from FCP7. I’ve installed Maverick on the new startup drive, and I want to upgrade the GPU to an nVidia 680 to take advantage of the Mercury Playback engine. Does anybody have the GTX680 playing nicely with 10.9 OS?
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I have a MacPro 3,1, with a Mac edition Nvidia GTX680 and Mavericks 10.9.1 and it works awesome with Premiere Pro CC. The only driver you need to download is the Cuda Driver on the Nvidia website. The actual video card driver is built into Mavericks.
Greg Jones
D7,Inc.
Orlando,FL.
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We use the GTX680 card with Mountain Lion, but are not so impressed with performance compared to the stock 5770. Is there a speed benefit for the 680 with Mavericks – maybe Apple has improved the driver?
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The only real advantage to the Nvidia GTX680 over the AMD 5770 would be for the Adobe products that take advantage of CUDA acceleration. If you have Cuda enabled there is an enormous advantage of the GTX680 over the AMD 5770. For OpenCL Apps such as Final Cut Pro X, I’m not sure you would notice much of a difference.
Greg Jones
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[Greg Jones] “If you have Cuda enabled there is an enormous advantage of the GTX680 over the AMD 5770. For OpenCL Apps such as Final Cut Pro X, I’m not sure you would notice much of a difference.”
Premiere Pro introduced support for OpenCL on Mac in CS6. See here https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2012/05/opencl-and-premiere-pro-cs6.html
In Premiere Pro CC we added OpenCL support on PC as well.
With that said I would expect a significant performance boost with the GTX680 over the 5770.
Best,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro
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