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Choosing The Right GPU To Take Adobe Workflows To The Max Posted: 29 May 2012 09:05 AM PDT As the Adobe Pro Video & Audio Field Team manager for the Americas, I lead a team responsible for working with customers and vendors on the newest technologies that benefit our Pro Video and Audio applications. We share our findings with the senior engineering teams and product managers, giving them insight into the real workflow benefits of these new technologies. The result: fine-tuned versions of each application, ready to leverage the GPU and tackle the next workflow challenge. One example of our close collaboration with NVIDIA is our new Mercury Transmit feature, which gives partners a simple programming interface through which they can hook up hardware to Adobe Premiere Pro, Prelude and Encore. NVIDIA and Adobe engineers created the Transmit plug-in to allow Quadro SDI boards to take advantage of Mercury Transmit throughout the entire CS6 Production Premium suite, including our new Color Grading application, Speed Grade. There are five CS6 workflows that I see most users falling into. Here are my recommendations of NVIDIA GPU setups best-suited for each. Full CS6 Production Premium Suite workflow For heavy users of After Effects, Premiere Pro, SpeedGrade and Photoshop, you'll want to select either the Quadro 5000 or 6000, depending on your After Effects needs. The more memory you have on the card (6000 has the most @ 6GB), the longer the After Effects RAM previews. For more GPU power, you can add an NVIDIA Tesla C2075 board. This is essentially an NVIDIA Maximus setup and is insanely fast. This provides a dual GPU config for After Effects users. NVIDIA Quadro SDI boards are also supported in CS6 Premiere Pro using NVIDIA's new Mercury Transmit driver. **Note** check your power supply requirements when using two or more boards in your system. CS6 Production Premium Suite Workflow Traditional CS6 Premiere Pro Workflow CS6 After Effects Workflow Otherwise, the biggest concern for most After Effects power users is how much RAM is on the card – RAM determines the length of RAM previews For power users, cards like the Quadro 6000 offer the most CUDA cores and most memory as of the writing of this blog article. The Quadro 5000 offers less memory but still displays high CUDA GPU performance. By adding a Tesla C2075, After Effects can take advantage of both GPUs. The combination of a Quadro 6000 and a Tesla C2075 board gives you the best possible GPU performance currently available. Mac Pro users will want the Quadro 4000. SpeedGrade Workflow Consider opting for the SDI Output option. This allows for real-time, high-end SDI monitoring. It is currently the only SDI board supported in CS6 SpeedGrade for Windows. (NVIDIA Quadro SDI boards are also supported in CS6 Premiere Pro, Prelude and Encore via NVIDIA's new Mercury Transmit driver). A few thoughts on Mac and OSX The Quadro 4000 and the older FX4800 are excellent choices that offer good memory and great CUDA performance. NVIDIA continues to update the CUDA driver for OSX (just updated to 4.2.7 this week). I’ll continue to watch out for the Mac Pro user in my discussions with NVIDIA and make recommendations on what they would like to see in future board releases. |
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