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rcrodgers
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April 25, 2012
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CS6 and AMD Radeons on PC, not Macs

  • April 25, 2012
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I haven't seen a direct answer to this, though I saw an Adobe employee (Todd) comment "for now" with a link to http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2012/04/premiere-pro-cs6-whats-new-and-changed.html , but I want to clarify this as much as possible now.

Last year, I built a new fairly high-end PC system for editing with CS5.5, but I stopped short of buying a video card at the time because I knew AMD was releasing the Radeon HD7000 series in the not too distant future, and that NVidia would be releasing the GTX 600 series in a similar timeframe. (Both series, obviously, have been at least partially released now.) I've been making do quite well with an ancient video card (Radeon HD4870) in the mean time. For personal and historical reasons, I prefer the AMD cards over NVidia, but I've been on the edge of pulling the trigger and ordering a GTX 680 over the last few weeks because I knew it was likely to be supported in the Mercury Playback Engine. However, now that CS6 has been announced and it uses OpenCL, that opens the door for me to stick with the AMD cards, and I just want to clarify that I will get the GPU acceleration on a Radeon series video card on my PC should I upgrade to some 7000 series card and upgrade to CS6. As someone mentioned in the thread I read earlier asked about this but was again more or less just pointed at a reference to Macs with AMD video chipsets, not PCs with discrete AMD cards.

I personally can't afford to upgrade my video card and to CS6 just to find that I don't get the GPU acceleration I was expecting.

Thank you!

Raymond Rodgers

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    Correct answer Todd_Kopriva

    You will not be able to use OpenCL for GPU acceleration in Premiere Pro CS6 on Windows.

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    spoofy1
    Participant
    April 21, 2013

    So I don't know if any of you have seen this, but AMD posted an article on their website about them working wtih Adobe to create OpenCL support for Windows.  http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-and-adobe-2013apr5.aspx

    Todd_Kopriva
    Todd_KoprivaCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    April 25, 2012

    You will not be able to use OpenCL for GPU acceleration in Premiere Pro CS6 on Windows.

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    rcrodgersAuthor
    Participant
    April 25, 2012

    I can't say I like these answers, but I have no choice either. If OpenCL support is added to the Mac version, as a programmer I see little reason it can't be added to the Windows version. But this isn't a place for an argument, so I'll just close this on out.

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    SvendBendt
    Participating Frequently
    April 25, 2012

    And now with the GTX 680 being artificially limited in OpenCL and DirectCompute to sell more Quadro cards, this is such bull.

    If you really believe that's true, then you need to take up the issue with nVidia, not Adobe.

    Jeff


    Jeff Bellune wrote:

    And now with the GTX 680 being artificially limited in OpenCL and DirectCompute to sell more Quadro cards, this is such bull.

    If you really believe that's true, then you need to take up the issue with nVidia, not Adobe.

    Jeff

    Oh I'm not imagining this.

    Chris Angelini from Tomshardware:

    "This time around, at the event introducing GeForce GTX 680 to press from around the world, the company refused to discuss compute, joking that it took a lot of heat for pushing the subject with Fermi and didn’t want to go there again.

    The more complete story is that it doesn’t want to go there…yet. Sandra 2012 just showed us that the GeForce GTX 680 trails AMD’s Radeon HD 7900 cards in 32-bit math. And it gets absolutely decimated in 64-bit floating-point operations, as Nvidia purposely protects its profitable professional graphics business by artificially capping perfrmance."

    Adobe could easily make everybody happy by simply allowing OpenCL on PC (and not just a few MacBooks)

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