Return-Path: Received: from [208.84.113.138] (HELO aurora2.hosting4less.com) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4724625 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Fri, 25 May 2012 19:38:28 +0200 Received: from anarchyjimPC (c-69-181-240-175.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [69.181.240.175]) (authenticated bits=0) by aurora2.hosting4less.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q4PHjiov012546; Fri, 25 May 2012 10:45:48 -0700 From: "Jim Tierney" To: "'After Effects Mail List'" , "'Rick'" References: In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: [AE] Best GFX card for AE/PP Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:40:32 -0700 Message-ID: <045d01cd3a9d$7ddd8b40$7998a1c0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_045E_01CD3A62.D17EB340" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: Ac06laxe/UHGZUvUSqC/Vcd9QGXW5AABvWdA Content-Language: en-us This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_045E_01CD3A62.D17EB340 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Definitely get the 680 or 590. Two of our testing cards for Beauty Box Video are the 570 and 4000. The 570 consistently beats the 4000 by 15-30%. I've done tests with just Premiere or AE and no filters with similar results. Beauty Box can use OpenCL or CUDA and the results are similar regardless of what technology is being used. The Quadro cards are not worth the money IMHO. Cheers, Jim ---------------------- Jim Tierney President Digital Anarchy http://www.digitalanarchy.com From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Rick Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 9:39 AM To: After Effects Mail List Subject: [AE] Best GFX card for AE/PP 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 ------=_NextPart_000_045E_01CD3A62.D17EB340 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Definitely get the 680 or 590.

Two of our testing cards for Beauty Box Video are the 570 and 4000. = The 570 consistently beats the 4000 by 15-30%. I've done tests with just = Premiere or AE and no filters with similar results. Beauty Box can use = OpenCL or CUDA and the results are similar regardless of what technology = is being used.

The Quadro cards are not worth the money = IMHO.

Cheers,

Jim

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Jim Tierney

President

Digital Anarchy

http://www.digitalanarchy.com

From:= = After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of = Rick
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 9:39 AM
To: = After Effects Mail List
Subject: [AE] Best GFX card for = AE/PP

E= ngineering 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.

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