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.

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)