From: Todd Kopriva <kopriva@adobe.com>
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 17:59:02 -0700
Subject: RE: [AE] Best GFX card for AE/PP
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What Danny says is correct: After Effects will use all of the CUDA cores of=
 all of the cards installed, as long as they use the same CUDA compute leve=
l (essentially a CUDA architecture version number). As has also been mentio=
ned, there's another caveat regarding VRAM and multiple cards: the GPU-acce=
lerated ray-traced 3D renderer will use all of the VRAM of the installed ca=
rds... except that it will treat every card in the system as if it has the =
amount of VRAM of the least card in the system. E.g., if you have a 1GB car=
d and a 4GB card, After Effects will use 1+1=3D2GB total.

This is not true for Premiere Pro, which only sees and uses the CUDA cores =
and VRAM on one card at a time.


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From: After Effects Mail List [AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Teddy =
Gage [teddygage@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 10:09 AM
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] Best GFX card for AE/PP

interesting... really? I had thought that was only with a Quadro / GT serie=
s combo, not SLI or dual-head cards. Todd could you clear that up? Is the s=
ame true for premiere? If so, maybe I will put both the 580 and 680 in the =
same machine... that would be something.

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:05 PM, rendernyc <rendernyc@gmail.com<mailto:rend=
ernyc@gmail.com>> wrote:
If you install 2 GTX580s CS6 will use both cards for the raytracer.
i havent tested the 590 but dont recall it not working


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com<mailto:ted=
dygage@gmail.com>> wrote:
don't get the 590 or any dual-card for CUDA. Like in an SLI setup, AE / PP =
can't use the second onboard card, even though it's a single unit

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Rendernyc <rendernyc@gmail.com<mailto:ren=
dernyc@gmail.com>> wrote:
For AE I would think the most performance u will get at that price is the 5=
90gtx which has 4x the cuda cores and 3GB ram

More cores means faster rendering and then the more ram on the card will he=
lp 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<mailto:a_pmb_fan@ya=
hoo.com>> wrote:

Engineering is taking my Quadro FX1800 out of my computer. It is on the low=
er 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 wi=
ll be upgrading from CS4 Production Premium to Creative Cloud along with up=
grading 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=3DN82E16814133324

z600 8core 2.13Ghz
16GBs ram
Windows 7 Pro
Thanks,

Rick Emery
www.rickemery.com<http://www.rickemery.com>


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