[Ben Jones]

Talked to the guys at red giant about that. Turns out the extension in the adobe extension library is only for version 2. The extension for 3 is found in the Shooter Suit folder that came with your copy of pluralise. Install that extension (go to extension manager and click install and direct it to the extension file), and all is well.

[Ben Jones]

Tom Antos has a good fix before the fact: https://vimeo.com/74307382
Wish I had know about this about a month ago!!

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[Ben Jones]

System 1:
3930K (stock) (no idea why it is, it must have reset itself)
470 GTX (448 CUDA cores)
8min 17 sec

System 2:
2 x 8 Core Xeon E5 Sandy Bridge @ 3.3GHz (16 Cores / 32 threads)
Quadro 4000 (256 CUDA cores)
17 minutes 24 sec

conclusion: Test seems completely processor independent
CUDA cores are key, Quadros are useless at raytracing!

Thanks Teddy… you just answered a question that has been bugging me for months.
Q: Are Quadros worth the money?
A: Not even slightly!

[Ben Jones]

Mac.. not sure. I’m not sure what is compatible.. your problems are probably worse than mine on this one!

[Ben Jones]

I know that is the theory, but for example, the Quadro 4000 has 256 CUDA cores.. the 690GTX has 3000 CUDA cores, and they cost about the same amount of money. I have rendered for days on my 470GTX without problem, and had my Quadro 4000 overheat (that was only once on a 35 degree C day admittedly).. I’m assuming because of its incredibly small heatsink in comparison to the 470.

Honestly, a Quadro 4000 is probably plenty for Adobe products, just it really doesn’t cut it when rendering on the GPU in things like blender cycles render. I all just frustrates me. Even the $5000 Quadro 6000 only has 448 CUDA cores (the same as the 470GTX which costs $250 now). IT’s like I either have to spend $20,000 on 4 QUADRO 6000s and get great performance in 1 product, and still get worse performance in blender… or just buy a 690GTX and put up with horrible performance in premier and AE. Or use a computer with a Quadro for adobe and the other one for 3D… but even then, I still take a hit on interface speed.

Bah.

[Ben Jones]

Good info. Thanks for that.

[Ben Jones]

“Decent” is the operative word. The quadro 4000 is incredibly slow for GPU based rendering compared to even a 470 GTX (the 470 is roughly 3x faster in blenders cycles renderer (for example).