Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #47826
From: Chris Meyer <chris@crishdesign.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] New Video Board?
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:48:07 -0700
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Some specific plug-ins are indeed GPU accelerated. A subset of that - as well as AE's ray-traced 3D renderer - are accelerated by specific NVIDIA GPUs featuring CUDA. If you're going to update your graphics card anyway, you might as well get an NVIDIA CUDA card; there's been a lot of discussion on this forum about which cards, and how to make so-called PC-only cards work in Macs.

If you're trying to speed up AE overall, CPU speed, disk access, and more RAM are your biggest friends; you might want to look through Adobe's white paper on the subject to pick which areas to upgrade: http://www.adobe.com/go/dv_hw_performance

- Chris



On Feb 15, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Lachlan Westfall wrote:

New Video Board?
I’ve done AE and stuff long enough to recall when you’d pay good money for a board that would accelerate certain plug ins.

That kinda changed as native processors got faster.

Now it seems that the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT in my Quad Core is just not cutting it.

Have we now reached the point where a bomb-ass CUDA accelerator card is required?

Fortunately, I’ve been really busy working and not able to track all the tech stuff as much as I would like.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

-Lachlan Westfall
Quiet Earth Design

 
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