I don't have a link handy, but I believe I read somewhere that CS6 is "enough" changed that an nVidia driver that worked with CS5/CS5.5 may not work with CS6... meaning you need to update your nVidia driver

I've seen mention that the current driver (for Windows ???) is 296."something" (can't remember the exact number... go to nVidia and check)

FYI: PC CS6:

I have (3) GeForce GTX 570's with 6 core I7 980's, 24 Gigs of ram.... (Windows) & Adobe is working on a rendering issue when "Video Rendering & Playback" is set to Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration, all 3 of my PC's crash during transcoding with  2 or 3 PinP layers + 1 title. Without the basic adobe title I can do 9 + layers no problem. This is true for AME & PP.

I have to use Software Only Mode for my complex projects which is just about everything i do.

Adobe is presently working on this.

is there anywhere online where we can see benchmarks comparing the speed benefits of the different nvidia cards with premiere and after effects? the only numbers I've ever seen showed very little difference between the gt240 and the highest end nvidia quadro cards (like a 1 or 2 percent increase using the higher end cards.) but wondering if that has changed at all since cs6 and kepler hadn't been released yet when that article was made.

edit:

Looks like the original article was updated for cs6 and kepler

http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

thx,

Jayson

youtube.com/AWDEfilms

Jayson,

woodybrando wrote:

 

is there anywhere online where we can see benchmarks comparing the speed benefits of the different nvidia cards with premiere and after effects? the only numbers I've ever seen showed very little difference between the gt240 and the highest end nvidia quadro cards (like a 1 or 2 percent increase using the higher end cards.) but wondering if that has changed at all since cs6 and kepler hadn't been released yet when that article was made.

 

edit:

Looks like the original article was updated for cs6 and kepler

http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

 

 

thx,

Jayson

youtube.com/AWDEfilms

That link on Dave's site just basically confirms the results that Bill had gotten from a GTX 260 and a GTX 550 Ti: The memory throughput of the GTX 550 Ti just falls short of that of the GTX 260.

Look at this way, all encoding is done by the CPU so you have not changed that at all, the only things handled by the GPU that could be speeded up are as follows:

"List of GPU accelerated effects in Premiere Pro CS5  Here is a list of the effects and transitions that can be accelerated by CUDA in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 (5.0.3) and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and later.      Alpha Adjust      Basic 3D      Black & White      Brightness & Contrast      Color Balance (RGB)      Color Pass (Windows only)      Color Replace      Crop      Drop Shadow      Edge Feather      Extract      Fast Color Corrector      Gamma Correction      Garbage Matte (4, 8, 16)      Gaussian Blur      Horizontal Flip      Levels      Luma Corrector      Luma Curve      Noise      Proc Amp      RGB Curves      RGB Color Corrector      Sharpen      Three-way Color Corrector      Timecode      Tint      Track Matte Key      Ultra Keyer      Video Limiter      Vertical Flip      Cross Dissolve      Dip to Black      Dip to White 

List of GPU accelerated effects in Premiere Pro CS5.5 and later  Here is a list of the additional effects and transitions that can be accelerated by CUDA in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and later.      Directional Blur      Fast Blur      Invert      Additive Dissolve      Film Dissolve"

Therefore adding a theortic 50,000 core GPU plus the fixed basic CPU encoding time is not going change your total time very much at all, you have reached a point of diminishing returns

You are correct, I was just looking for that list  Those are not "Effects"  and actually they are the some most significant items for the GPU.