Graphics Cards for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

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Graphics Cards for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

NVidia cards quick reference tool - primarily for users of Adobe Creative Apps with respect to MPE (Mercury Playback Engine) and GPU acceleration. Covers individual cards' power consumption, number of cores, memory, etc.

General resources:

NVidia Quadro Desktop cards - specifications (NVidia)
NVidia Workstation Lineup (NVidia, PDF)

Resources - Premiere Pro:

Adobe Premiere Pro (current version) - Tech specs. Includes a list of graphics card supported for GPU acceleration.
CUDA, Mercury Playback Engine, and Adobe Premiere Pro -- Todd Kopriva (Adobe), February 23, 2011.
Mercury, CUDA, and what it all means - a post by Adobe employee Todd Kopriva, on Adobe Premiere Pro Forum - Jan 20, 2011
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 improvements in CUDA processing and the Mercury Playback Engine -- Todd Kopriva, Adobe Blogs, April 12, 2011.

Resources - After Effects:

OpenGL, the GPU, and After Effects CS6 (by Todd Kopriva, Adobe)
GPU (CUDA, OpenGL) features in After Effects CS6 and later (by Todd Kopriva, Adobe)
AE CS6 GPU ray tracing benchmarks (teddygage.com, PDF)

If the table below is not visible (apologies for the inconvenience - and thanks Google!) here is the direct link to it, and just in case, that same table published as a web page.

Graphics Cards

Yet more resources:

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5: What’s new and changed - Todd Kopriva (Adobe), April 10, 2011.
Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5: What’s new and changed - Todd Kopriva (Adobe), April 10, 2011:
- Watch folder features - much improved; now includes auto-encoding
- Improved RED support
- Trial versions of Premiere Pro CS5.5 and After Effects CS5.5 now include all codecs included with the full versions

Videos:

CS5.0 GPU Accelerated Effects and Enhancements (tv.adobe.com, 04/30/2010, 4m 37s)

CS5.0 GPU Acceleration and NVidia (Karl Soule, tv.adobe.com, 04/11/2010, 9m 57s)

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