[Danny Beard]

@walter biscardi

Nvidia is NO LONGER required for high performance with Adobe apps. Hasn’t been for two years at least. Adobe supports Open GL just the same as CUDA. If you were at NAB this past April you would have seen the latest AMD cards in a Dell screaming with 6k footage in Adobe Premiere Pro running with Open GL.

The problem with the iMac, as least as far as we can tell, is that there’s only 4GB RAM on the graphics card to drive that display and help drive the performance of software such as Adobe Premiere Pro. It might work out perfectly fine, but many of us are scratching our heads wondering why an 8GB AMD card is not an option. According to Apple specs, there’s some other processor in there to drive the display, but we’re suspect until we see a real world test

Walter, is there any update on this issue?

Have you found a forum, speed tests, resource(s) that discusses editors best options, who prefer to stay on OSX and work in Adobe CC? I have a 27” 5K imac with a 4GB of AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB graphics card.

based on this thread- I concluded that new imacs are incompatible with CUDA. I have been running Open CL in Premiere, with glitches, slow render times, text all issues I would hope would have been resolved with a contemporary graphics card. From what I gather, Adobe and Apple want to split ways regarding collaborative performance, the question is what optimal performance do apple editors have? Or is better to throw you hands up and move over to PC?

Thank you for your time and input.

[Danny Beard]

For the most part supported Nvidia cards use Cuda, and AMD/ATI cards like yours, and some unsupported Nvidia cards, use OpenCL. Remember that, as it’s essential info every editor needs to know.

Whenever updating the OS and/or your Adobe apps the default GPU driver is installed, it’s up to you to search the Web for the latest driver for your card if there is one, then install that driver and enable OpenCL in Adobe preferences when it’s properly installed.

@David Roth Weiss

Have you found a forum, speed tests, resource(s) that discusses editors best options, who prefer to stay on OSX and work in Adobe CC? I have a 27” 5K imac with a 4GB of AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB graphics card.

I picked up this thread

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/959476
and they concluded that new imacs are incompatible with CUDA. I have been running Open CL in Premiere, with glitches, slow render times, text all issues I would hope would have been resolved with a contemporary graphics card. From what I gather Adobe and Apple want to split ways regarding collaborative performance, PC is the only way to get CUDA?

Thank you for your time and input.