GTX 7xx Mac date?

[Larry Asbell]

Can’t speak for Adobe, but I can tell you that a GTX 760 2GB is working well in my MacPro 4,1. using Premier CC 7.1.

Setting Mercury Playback to use CUDA GPU performs much better than MPE in software. Rendering is much quicker too. I don’t how one measures degrees of improvement or what other details to check out that would tell if the acceleration is equal to other approved GPUs. Perhaps knowing how to interpret a utility like atMonitor to track GPU usage would help.

I will add that SpeedGrade now crashes on boot. Earlier, when it did not crash, it was unacceptably sluggish, but I gather that’s a pretty widespread experience with this SG version on Mac, and not necessarily related to which GPU. I’m keeping a eye out for a release that improves SpeadGrade.

[Walter Soyka]

[Brad Bussé] “Has Adobe given an indication or roadmap as to when they will support the GTX 770/780 for Mac?”

I don’t think I’ve seen Adobe pre-announce qualification of a GPU.

With Premiere Pro CC, you can use even unsupported GPUs as long as they have enough VRAM (more than 1 GB) and pass a few basic shader tests.

Just go into File > Project Settings > General, and choose your GPU. If it’s unsupported but still passes the basic functionality tests, you’ll get a little message saying that the card is untested, but you’ll be able to use it anyway. If you run into any trouble, just switch back to software MPE in Project Settings.

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[Andrew Kimery]

From what I’ve read Adobe will add officially test a card if they get enough requests for it. On the Mac side so relatively few people use non-OEM cards that I’m not surprised this is the case.

I’m using an unsupported GTX 660 Ti and, like Walter mentioned, I just selected CUDA acceleration, I got a one-time warning that my card wasn’t officially support, and off I went. Been using it for a couple of months with no problems.