3 Replies Latest reply: Mar 24, 2014 1:55 PM by JayFriesen RSS

    Most affordable Mac CUDA card ?

    federatedfilms Community Member

      Unfortunatly I was sold a Mac pro with a ATI Radeon HD 5870 and I have been hoping Adobe would support it but after 18 months still nothing and I want the GPU acceleration available for After Effects, Premiere and Speedgrade.

       

      So I am looking for an afordable CUDA card which seems to be mainly NVIDIA. I checked out on Amazon UK the NVIDIA GTX 680 -  which is at least sub £500 and I wondered if anyone had used it for Speedgrade and also is it compatable with the mini DisplayPort plugs I have on my Apple 27" LED Cinema display (2560x1440).

       

      Thanks for your help :-)

       

      Kevin

        • 1. Re: Most affordable Mac CUDA card ?
          JayFriesen Community Member

          As far as I know, Nvidia is the only manufacturer that produces CUDA cards since CUDA is an Nvidia property. Also, CUDA acceleration is not yet supported in Speedgrade.

           

          I am selling a GTX 570HD

          • 2. Re: Most affordable Mac CUDA card ?
            federatedfilms Community Member

            Thanks JayFriesen. I was just listening to Lynda.com tutorial on Speedgrade 7.2 and it said it was now supporting OpenCL and GPU acceleration, here is the transcript from the video below...

             

            Now, the big thing on this release is Direct Link on the Mac. It now works, mostly.And why do I say mostly, because OpenCL is now supported on your GPU card.So, the problem before was direct link on a Mac, instead of doing all of this processing on your graphics card, it was doing it in the host computer. Well, OpenCL is now supported on both the Mac and PC, and it's through this OpenCL support that Direct Link on the Mac is now working.

            The reason I say mostly is because CUDA for the Mac, not yet supported. You're not going to see the kind of responsiveness you would expect if you were working in a native .ircp SpeedGrade project. I mean, you're still going to be faster in that native project if you're on an Nvidia card because Nvidia supports CUDA and SpeedGrade has very much been tuned towards CUDA. Also remember that you know, the beefier the card, whether you're on OpenCL or using CUDA, no matter what, the beefier the card, the faster the card, the more VRAM you have, the more responsive SpeedGrade will be.

            So this isn't just purely an OpenCL and CUDA thing, it's also, you know, how beefy is your graphics card? Direct Link on a Mac? If you're using Direct Link on a Mac, you need to update to 7.2. Do not sit on 7.1. Alright, so that's my big take away from this SpeedGrade CC 7.2 update.

            • 3. Re: Most affordable Mac CUDA card ?
              JayFriesen Community Member

              Well, there you go. News to me