For AE I would think the most performance u will get at that price is the 590gtx which has 4x the cuda cores and 3GB ram

More cores means faster rendering and then the more ram on the card will help out with larger evironment maps

The q4000 will be much slower

The 590 is basically 2 580s on one board. Depending on your system There's also the gtx480  and 580 where can install multiple cards that AE will use

On May 25, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Rick <a_pmb_fan@yahoo.com> wrote:

Engineering is taking my Quadro FX1800 out of my computer. It is on the lower end of CUDA enabled cards but does help. I put up a fight until my boss said I had a $1000.00 limit to get whatever card I want to replace it. I will be upgrading from CS4 Production Premium to Creative Cloud along with upgrading BCC7 AE to 8 and getting the card, hopefully all today.

 

What is the best card I can get for that price? So far I've seen the Quadro 4000 for either $80 at a never before heard of place or $700 from NewEgg.  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133324

z600 8core 2.13Ghz

16GBs ram

Windows 7 Pro

Thanks,

Rick Emery
www.rickemery.com