Return-Path: Received: from mail-lb0-f169.google.com ([209.85.217.169] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4688427 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:40:59 +0200 Received: by lbbgp10 with SMTP id gp10so2438333lbb.28 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:41:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=TJuef0QghnUIP+eTvC5zVHwAKIVbBIX4ToYbflh5QxE=; b=IpcF+zjQNur0Vg2oKbQvZwnJd1NWKJ1dWKHhPZ44WAV6CZIyKskyxaEo5urhGJZvgY qhya4gx35szvPTqPS8CxrtfVPvDWvE7MhNokPiIAu/pg1yqnFPwrOd2uX571JechS399 NtLec2ky49UghKrKrXdne7F+uQrkYRCsH+qYdS3W/XF8e3a9gQKukL9Y5eAMr7G1+4zH 8s/CNhIt9971gm0+DAbVmJvAmWv2I4Ud07RVwQCR4EUmQYRkZu5BkKAEaDE1Do8C/McF 40ZaSqU5nQVbb50LfBpwWnzJDlQ/X3y76I03+J37eajaJmbTzYYS4Cl4bEt96CACeUxK TwbA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.108.84 with SMTP id hi20mr15277218lab.22.1334688113799; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:41:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.60.193 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:41:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:41:53 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] GTX 580 in CS6 (should have been GTX 580 vs Quadro 4000) From: Robert Houghton To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec54eebf8e8b15704bde44a96 --bcaec54eebf8e8b15704bde44a96 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 That makes things interesting since the price difference between a Quadro 4000 and the 3GB 580GTX is less than $250 depending on where you shop for parts. I would love to hear from anyone who's tried CS6 with the 580. I suppose if someone were to do a render test in Premiere Pro 5.5 it might give an indicator of what advantage you could get with either card but without a base to compare it to this is all speculative. If you go with raw Cuda cores the 580GTX has twice as many plus more RAM than the Quadro. That alone should make a major difference but it's all about the drivers. -Rob On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Chris Meyer wrote: > The specific advantage of more VRAM is you can fit larger layers into > memory instead of having them swapped out for processing. This is > particularly an issue with environment maps in AE CS6 (see the first page > of my review on PVC - http://tinyurl.com/AECS6onPVC). So I'd go for the 3 > GB flavor. > > - Chris > > > -- Robert Houghton | Motion Graphics Designer www.houghtonmedia.com ph. 503.347.2234 email. rob@houghtonmedia.com --bcaec54eebf8e8b15704bde44a96 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable That makes things interesting since the price difference between a Quadro 4= 000 and the 3GB 580GTX is less than $250 depending on where you shop for pa= rts. I would love to hear from anyone who's tried CS6 with the 580. I s= uppose if someone were to do a render test in Premiere Pro 5.5 it might giv= e an indicator of what advantage you could get with either card but without= a base to compare it to this is all speculative.=A0If you go with raw Cuda= cores the 580GTX has twice as many plus more RAM than the Quadro. That alo= ne should make a major difference but it's all about the drivers.

=A0 -Rob

On Tu= e, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Chris Meyer <chris@crishdesign.com> wrote:
The specific advantage of more VRAM is you can fit larger layers into memor= y instead of having them swapped out for processing. This is particularly a= n issue with environment maps in AE CS6 (see the first page of my review on= PVC - http://t= inyurl.com/AECS6onPVC). So I'd go for the 3 GB flavor.

- Chris


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