Suggested GPU

[Alex Gerulaitis]

It’s a decent card – a great match for Premiere Pro; a little less so for heavy AE use, but all in all, a great bang for the buck.

Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA

[Vishesh Arora]

Alon

AE performance mainly depends on RAM, CPU and Hard Disk unless you are going for 3D Ray-Tracing feature which is new in CS6 version.

For Improved Performance

So Gtx660i GPU would be good for Premiere Pro as it will use NVidia video card’s GPU to accelerate playback, effects and rendering.

Vishesh Arora
3D and Motion Graphics Artist
Films Rajendra

Blog:
https://digieffects.wordpress.com

2011 3D Demo Reel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

[Todd Kopriva]

If you want to use the GPU acceleration features that rely on CUDA, I recommend getting a card that we’ve actually tested thoroughly and support for these features.

See this page for a list of those cards:
https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/tech-specs.html

See this page for details of GPU features:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/05/gpu-cuda-opengl-features-in-after-effects-cs6.html

If I were buying a card for my own personal use right now, I’d buy the GTX 690.

Danny Princz maintains a benchmark comparison chart here:
https://www.loopoutcontinue.com/2012/08/benchmarking-cuda-performance-in-after-effects-cs6/
Be sure to follow the link to the live document for most recent results.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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