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Let me get this straight.... Video cards supported on Mac

May 26, 2012 3:49 PM

I've been reviewing the forums to check whether I should upgrade from AE 5.5 to 6.

 

I see this from Adobe:

" The following NVIDIA GPUs are supported in After Effects CS6.

Mac:

  1. GeForce GTX 285
  2. Quadro CX
  3. Quadro FX 4800
  4. Quadro 4000"

 

What about ATI cards?

 

Any info gratefully received.

1956 Views   10 Replies   Latest reply: StevRo, May 31, 2012 9:41 PM
 
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  • Mylenium
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    1. Mylenium,
    May 26, 2012 9:53 PM   in reply to djfilms9
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    There is no support for ATI cards and that is that. OptiX is a proprietary NVidia thing no matter whether it's Mac or PC.

     

    Mylenium

     
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    2. djfilms9,
    May 27, 2012 6:38 AM   in reply to Mylenium
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    Ah,  I see. Your programmers don't know how to program for ATI cards, thus cutting the market share of your product. Hm. Strange business decision.

     
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  • StevRo
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    3. StevRo,
    May 27, 2012 7:06 PM   in reply to djfilms9
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    any info gratefully received?  uhh..  ya..

     

    Mylenium is a private individual who volunteers their time adding a heck of lot of value to the forums..  So be thankful to him for answering.

     

    If you weren't so arrogant, I would tell you when engineering teams decide on which technologies to take bets on, it is usually based on how mature the technology is at the time they start development.  Lets assume Adobe started started work on the ray tracer ~2 years ago.  If you went to the 2 major manufacturers (AMD & NVIDIA) and asked them what they had who could help you?  NVIDIA had Optix, AMD had nothing and OpenGl had squat for development tools..  If you ran a business who would you go with for your first release?

     

    Business decisions are made on what the business units believe they can deliver within a given timeline.. 

     
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    4. Kevin Monahan,
    May 30, 2012 8:04 AM   in reply to Mylenium
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    Mylenium wrote:

     

    There is no support for ATI cards and that is that. OptiX is a proprietary NVidia thing no matter whether it's Mac or PC.

     

    Mylenium

    This is incorrect information.

     

    ATI cards are supported for After Effects CS6, however, there is no GPU acceleration for ray-traced 3D compositions. You can render those with CPUs in computers with ATI cards (quite a bit slower, though). Bottom line, ATI cards work fine with AE CS6, just no acceleration for ray-traced compositions.

     

    More info here: http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2012/05/gpu-cuda-opengl-features-in -after-effects-cs6.html

    System requirements: http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/tech-specs.html

     
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  • Mylenium
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    5. Mylenium,
    May 29, 2012 11:30 PM   in reply to Kevin Monahan
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    I was never referring to anything else...

     

    Mylenium

     
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    6. djfilms9,
    May 30, 2012 7:47 AM   in reply to Kevin Monahan
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    Kevin,

     

    Thank you for your informative reply. The article by Kopriva is very well written.

     
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  • djfilms9
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    7. djfilms9,
    May 30, 2012 4:55 PM   in reply to StevRo
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    StevRo,

     

    Whither OpenCL? You carefully avoid mentioning that.

     

    PS: It's not arrogance, it's anger. I bought Pagemaker 1, Illustrator 1 and AE 2. I've been a loyal customer since (probably) before you were born, and now I get relegated to second class rendering and get replies from Mylenium which are as curt as they are erroneous. Not conducive to low blood pressure.

     
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    8. djfilms9,
    May 30, 2012 5:31 PM   in reply to Mylenium
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    Mylenium,

     

    You did not make that clear in the abruptness of your "reply".

     
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    9. Mylenium,
    May 30, 2012 11:12 PM   in reply to djfilms9
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    Fair enough...

     

    Mylenium

     
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  • StevRo
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    10. StevRo,
    May 31, 2012 9:41 PM   in reply to djfilms9
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    @djfilms9, lets take it offline, you are more than welcome to PM me and we'll discuss it further as this thread has become stale.  BTW my experience with computers started began with the Altair 8800.

     
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