[Bill Thompson]

Just in case anyone happens on this thread, all of this changed in May of 2012 – After Effects CS6 uses the Quadro GPUs (and Tesla Compute Engines) to speed ray-tracing and many other compute-intensive functions, and PNY/NVIDIA start shipping the K5000 (4GB GDDR5, 1536 CUDA cores) in October, 2012. There’s Mac version of this card upcoming, to join the current Quadro 4000 for Mac and liberate pokey AE comps on Xeon and i7 workstations running Win 7 or 10.7.x. hoorah!