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1. Re: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX GPU support for the Mac
Szalam Jul 19, 2013 6:34 AM (in response to mwfarris)mwfarris wrote:
Please also consider this a request as well.
A forum post in a user-to-user forum is not going to be considered an official request. Adobe employees sometimes do frequent these forums, but this isn't a place to officially contact Adobe. It takes very little time to file a proper feature request and it will then be officially tracked.
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2. Re: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX GPU support for the Mac
Todd_Kopriva Jul 19, 2013 8:43 AM (in response to Szalam)Szalam is correct about how to submit feature requests.
As it happens, I'm doing some testing on that GPU today. If all goes well with this testing, there's a good chance of this card being added to the list of supported cards for the next release.
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3. Re: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX GPU support for the Mac
mwfarris Jul 19, 2013 9:34 PM (in response to Szalam)After I made this post I did go to the requested feature page and submitted it. I did not know that at first, but now I do, Thanks.
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4. Re: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX GPU support for the Mac
mwfarris Jul 19, 2013 9:39 PM (in response to Todd_Kopriva)I guess one of the selling points of CC is that you guys can update when you get a fix or improvment, rather than waiting for the next new version, so I hope this is ture :-) So I hope that when you are done testing this GPU, you will send out an update without delay.
Thanks
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5. Re: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX GPU support for the Mac
federatedfilms Jul 24, 2013 11:34 AM (in response to Todd_Kopriva)When do you think us ATi Radeon card users will get a versionof AE that will use our GPU, been waiting a year already!
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6. Re: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX GPU support for the Mac
Todd_Kopriva Jul 24, 2013 12:01 PM (in response to federatedfilms)> When do you think us ATi Radeon card users will get a versionof AE that will use our GPU
After Effects already uses ATI/AMD cards for GPU features, and has for years. The single exception is one feature: the GPU acceleration for the ray-traced 3D renderer.
Details:
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/05/gpu-cuda-opengl-features-in-after-effects-cs6. html
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7. Re: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX GPU support for the Mac
federatedfilms Jul 24, 2013 1:00 PM (in response to Todd_Kopriva)"The single exception is one feature: the GPU acceleration for the ray-traced 3D renderer."
Yep, that's the one I'm after, why have you ignored the "other" graphics card for the Mac all this time?
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8. Re: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX GPU support for the Mac
Todd_Kopriva Jul 24, 2013 1:24 PM (in response to federatedfilms)It's not a matter of "ignoring". The ray-traced 3D renderer is based on code from a third party that can only run on GPUs with CUDA---i.e., Nvidia cards. It's not possible to run this on AMD/ATI cards.
Note that in the recent version of After Effects, we have taken a different path, which is to rely on Cinema 4D for 3D, and this has no dependency on any specific hardware.
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9. Re: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX GPU support for the Mac
federatedfilms Jul 24, 2013 2:31 PM (in response to Todd_Kopriva)Ahh I see, that helps to know why it's only NVIDIA that is supported.
So sounds like the best pathway to 3D work then is via Cinema 4D from now on instead of using illustrator files, converting to shape layers and then switching to Ray Traced 3D and extruding.




