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From: "Stephen van Vuuren" <stephen@sv2studios.com>
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Subject: RE: [AE] (OT) An example of a PC version of a Mac Pro with today's tech for AE
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:10:29 -0400
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> As I alluded, It's only multiproc rendering that can't use virtual cores.
Other multithreaded tasks (like non-CUDA ray-traced rendering) uses real and
virtual cores.

Chris, you confused about AE (which is a very rare thing). CS4 did not use
HTT, but CS5 did - it was part of the launch marketing. Unless something has
been disabled in CS6 which would be a big shocker and a fail since this was
a major engineering feature of 64-bit CS5. I've been HTT rendering on almost
every render since CS5 came out. While performance is not the same as
physical cores - obviously - the huge cost difference, especially if you
overclock, more than makes up. Which is why this benchmark recommended Quad
Core, HT and MP enabled as best bang for buck using AE CS5.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/adobe-cs5-cuda-64-bit,2770-6.html

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4363116

I just got my plugs setup for CS6 and will be rendering with HTT on tonight
but I will be most surprised if it does not work.

stephen van vuuren
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