Stupid questions regarding CUDA, OpenCL and Premiere 6

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tero Ahlfors] “I’m not a hardcore IT guy but what I figured out from the panic log was that Premiere was the culprit.”

What did it say?

[Mel Feliciano]

I saw that video and noticed that the system is setup in a way that it uses the Mac Mini for the GUI and the Quadro 4000 for the CUDA acceleration. I heard that wasn’t posible with previous versions of Premiere. You needed to use the same GPU card for both GUI and CUDA acceleration. Is it posible to use, for example, a GT-120 for the GUI and a Quadro 4000 for CUDA acceleration on the same Mac Pro? This configuration is ideal for Davinci Resolve. Notice I’m not talking about the new Nvidia Maximus dual GPU configuration.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Mel Feliciano] “I saw that video and noticed that the system is setup in a way that it uses the Mac Mini for the GUI and the Quadro 4000 for the CUDA acceleration. I heard that wasn’t posible with previous versions of Premiere. You needed to use the same GPU card for both GUI and CUDA acceleration. Is it posible to use, for example, a GT-120 for the GUI and a Quadro 4000 for CUDA acceleration on the same Mac Pro? This configuration is ideal for Davinci Resolve. Notice I’m not talking about the new Nvidia Maximus dual GPU configuration.”

I would think that it would require some tweaking by each application.

The video does mention it took some “doing” to get this to work (since the CUDA drivers didn’t want to install on the mini due to it’s non CUDA status) and that Premiere itself was able to discern the difference in where it can get the CUDA power. So I think they had to “force install” the drivers and probably had to point the external card to them somehow. Just my speculation.

To answer specifically, I think DaVinci would need to be able to recognize multiple graphics cards as separate items and be able to pull the power it needs from the “best” card for the situation.

Premiere CS6 seems to have this capability built in to it.

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Jeremy Garchow] ”
What did it say?”

Is there something specific you know you might be able to translate from the log? I don’t speak computer 😉

[Jeremy Garchow]

Bleep bloop

[Alejandro Villa]

hi, could help me.?
my question is, I have a gtx 570 gpu, could get more out if my PC I place another gtx 570 in sli gpu?

[Walter Soyka]

[alejandro villa] “my question is, I have a gtx 570 gpu, could get more out if my PC I place another gtx 570 in sli gpu?”

No.

NVIDIA’s Maximus technology [link] accelerates Premiere, but SLI does not.

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[Alejandro Villa]

then it would be better to change video card?
I get my budget for a gtx 680, the trigger in the cuda support option.
would be better that way?

[Hermann Kruk]

David, re: Windows Premiere and OpenCL, is there a timeline for this. I didn’t get the memo about no Windows support for this before committing to Premiere 6.0 on Windows. Any news would be appreciated.