Graphic card question

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[dixie.fever] “I’ve noticed that Adobe recommends the Nvidia Quadro cards over the Geforce cards. I am a bit confused. I thought that the advantage of the Quadro is in 3d, while Premiere Pro is more of a 2d software”

The cards that Adobe lists for Ppro 2 is for GPU acceleration for certain effects, they list 6800/7800 chipsets, the newer 7900/7950 cards also work they just haven’t updated their site yet, all these cards are also 3D

[Jonathan Shohet]

I know Geforce are also 3d cards. I just thought that the only reason to choose a much more expensive workstation 3d card over a gaming 3d card was if you work with 3d programs or use particle effects in After Effects and so on…

Does anybody know what exactly are the benefits of the Quadro over the Geforce if you mainly use Premiere?

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[dixie.fever] “Does anybody know what exactly are the benefits of the Quadro over the Geforce if you mainly use Premiere?”
For normal DV/HDV/HD there is none in particular, as long as the card meets the open GL requirements

[Jonathan Shohet]

thanks 🙂

[Payner44]

I’m using an inexpensive ATI X1600XT card ($125) with zero issues. I’m doing all HDV stuff with dual 19″ widescreen monitors…DVI to the main monitor and analog (RGB) to the second monitor for watching the timeline in full screen.