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
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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.
Thanks,