Ray-Tracing on AMD GPU in AE CC

[Walter Soyka]

[Luke Calamita] “I have After Effects CC and I heard that it supports OpenGL acceleration for ray-tracing. My computer has an AMD 7770 Ghz Edition GPU and After Effects still doesn’t allow me to accelerate with it. Can anyone help? This was the main reason I upgraded to CC.”

I am sorry to have to tell you, Luke, but you heard wrong. Ae’s ray-tracer is only GPU-accelerated by CUDA on specific NVIDIA cards. Without a supported (or unsupported but manually added) NVIDIA card, the ray-tracer will run unaccelerated on the CPU.

Starting with CS6, the way Ae draws to the screen is OpenGL-accelerated, as are fast previews and the Cartoon effect. This is unchanged in CC.

See GPU (CUDA, OpenGL) features | CC, CS6 [link] for more.

Walter Soyka
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[Luke Calamita]

Sad news, but thanks for the reply.

-Luke

[Mohan Rawat]

Can you suggest some cost effective card to run AE……My mac early 2011 with AMD radeon 1GB is not working because of using Creative CLoud Adobe’s AE. Thinking of assembling a window based desktop…..