New iMacs and Premiere

[John Young]

https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html

You won’t get GPU acceleration with that card, which is one of Premiere’s main advantages.

John

[Paolo Mugnaini]

Ok, That sucks.

IT says that on a MacBook Pro it can use the AMD cards, and that makes the MBP better suited for editing than the iMac.

Crazy. I bet there is not way to replace that card in the iMac either.

Thanks

Paolo

[Tero Ahlfors]

You can add it to the CUDA supported list text file and it should work. My GTX 260 and GTX 660 Ti (and Quadro M2000 on CS5) worked fine with the fix but they weren’t officially supported.

Edit: https://www.videoguys.com/Guide/K/Cuda/How+To+Enable+GPU+Cuda+in+Adobe+CS6+for+Mac/0x69786371af86c8d0158c94f64df3cdbe.aspx

[Paolo Mugnaini]

WOW! thanks! that’s great.

I was afraid my only choices would have been a macpro or a PC.

Thanks again!

Paolo

[Michael Hendrix]

The new ’27 iMac has an option to upgrade the card to 2gb of video ram. My money would be that they will add this card to the list for CUDA acceleration.

[Walter Soyka]

[paolo mugnaini] “I am looking to purchase a 2013 iMac but not sure if the card it comes with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory, is going to be working fine with Pr and AE.”

This iMac configuration hasn’t shipped yet, so it’s not yet tested or qualified for Ae/Pr — though it does look like a pretty promising card. As Tero mentions, you don’t necessarily have to wait for qualification — you can add unsupported CUDA cards to the lists yourself.

Assuming this will ultimately work, I’d agree with Michael that the 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX would be a worthwhile upgrade over the stock 1 GB GTX 675MX.

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[Paolo Mugnaini]

Thanks Guys!

Too bad they won’t allow you to get a better card than the 2 offerings.
IT does seem to be a pretty good machine, still undecided between that and the mbp for portability, but there is definitely a loss in performance without the Nvidia card.

Thanks!

Paolo

[Angelo Lorenzo]

The others have you covered, but I wanted to point out that since you’ll have Thunderbolt, you can get a PCI card carriage eventually if the need ever arises.

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[Paolo Mugnaini]

Thank you Angelo!

[Michael Hendrix]

I am working in CS6 on a 2011 MBP and it works quite well with ProRes 422 and XDCAM on FW800 and shared storage. A better CUDA enabled card would be icing on the cake.