GFX card – 2008 Mac Pro & CC

[Walter Soyka]

[Jimmy Brunger] “I would lose raytracing ability in AE with the ATI card, but is CUDA getting phased out by Adobe in favour of CL in the near future?”

Ae raytracing is built on an NVIDIA library called OptiX, so I don’t see that moving to OpenCL.

I’ve got all NVIDIA cards here so I don’t have first-hand knowledge, but numerous reports here suggest CUDA is still performing better than OpenCL.

You might consider the GTX 680 Mac edition. Requires 10.8.3 or higher and runs on 2008 Mac Pro 3,1.

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[Phillip Todd]

I noticed the other day it was in stock at B&H. The Mac version used to be hard to find.

Phillip Todd
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[Morten]

We have the GTX 680 Mac edition in our 2008 MacPro, and while it does accelerate Premiere quite a bit, it also presents some redraw problems with Speedgrade.

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Adobe CC, 3 x MacPro, 3 x MbP, Ethernet File Server w. Areca ThunderRaid 8…. and FCPX on trial

[Phillip Todd]

[Morten Ranmar] “it also presents some redraw problems with Speedgrade.”

Can you elaborate? Where does the issue lay? Drivers, GPU, SpeedGrade?

Phillip Todd
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[Morten]

Have the latest drivers for the card, but have seen erratic behaviour from Speedgrade. Before the last big upgrade we had banding problems with all masks, when returning to Premiere. Also frequent crashes. Now in the latest upgrade, there are less crashes, but border pixels in the viewer are incorrectly rendered, with flickering noise. Upon returnng to Premiere the noise disappears again.

– No Parking Production –

Adobe CC, 3 x MacPro, 3 x MbP, Ethernet File Server w. Areca ThunderRaid 8…. and FCPX on trial

[Phillip Todd]

[Morten Ranmar] “Now in the latest upgrade, there are less crashes, but border pixels in the viewer are incorrectly rendered, with flickering noise. Upon returnng to Premiere the noise disappears again.”

I am assuming you are on SG CC v7.2?
I saw some notes here regarding Macs: https://blogs.adobe.com/movingcolors/2013/12/12/speedgrade-cc-7-2-update/

In the notes it states:

* Enabled: NVIDIA OpenCL (Mac) GPU acceleration is now available for OS X 10.8.5 and higher. This provides better feedback and real-time grading update when applying color adjustments.

* Note: GPU acceleration for NVIDIA CUDA and AMD OpenCL are not currently available on the Mac platform.

I have CS6 and am planning to try out SG soon. So I can’t really give any insight, but, might it be a problem of the Cuda implementation in PPro CC (works well) and OpenCL in SG CC (perhaps doesn’t work well)…? I am just guessing here.

Phillip Todd
Cinematographer
http://www.phillip-todd.com

[Steve Connor]

I’ve just put a 7950 in my 2008 MacPro and it doesn’t seem to speed up PPro CC very much at all.

Works well with FCPX though 🙂

Steve Connor

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[Julius Miller]

Howdy

I know this post has been unanswered for a while but how has this card been in Premiere CC (HD7950).

I have a MP3.1 and wanting to upgrade the GFX card.

options are GTX680 or HD7950.

Any advice?

Thanks